Beautiful JavaScript: how to guide students to create good and elegant code

摘要

The authors use this paper to propose procedural guidelines to help students develop "elegant" JavaScript code. The target audience is students learning to program in JavaScript who have already completed a course in object-oriented programming. The motivation is that interpreted JavaScript can lead to sloppy code. Although there are useful insights in what is presented in this paper, two troubling questions arise. First, why were the students lacking good techniques and an effective process, given that this wasn't their first experience with programming? Second, why propose this detailed approach without at least some preliminary testing to see how well it works with actual students?