Introduction :: Eloquent JavaScript

While a simple algorithm can instruct a computer to, for example, add 1 to a number, in order to perform complex tasks it needs a group of algorithms that work in concert.

The back end of the internet is code. Unless you plan on becoming a programmer, we don’t need to get technical here. Code is the series of commands, functions, and systems that delivers interactive information to your screen.

First, one must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I thi

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.... Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's wor