If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript

Angus Croll is obsessed with JavaScript and literature in equal measure. He works on Twitter's UI framework team where he co-authored the Flight framework. He writes the influential JavaScript, JavaScript blog and speaks at conferences worldwide.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Fibonacci

1 Ernest Hemingway
2 William Shakespeare
3 André Breton
4 Roberto Bolaño
5 Dan Brown

Factorial

6 Jack Kerouac
7 Jane Austen
8 Samuel Johnson
9 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10 James Joyce

Happy Numbers

11 J.D. Salinger
12 Tupac Shakur
13 Virginia Woolf
14 Geoffrey Chaucer
15 Vladimir Nabokov

Prime Numbers

16 Jorge Luis Borges
17 Lewis Carroll
18 Douglas Adams
19 Charles Dickens
20 David Foster Wallace

Say It

21 Sylvia Plath
22 Italo Calvino
23 J.K. Rowling
24 Arundhati Roy
25 Franz Kafka

Poetic Interludes

1 Edgar Allan Poe
2 William Shakespeare
3 Dylan Thomas
4 Walt Whitman

A real treat, and a book whose time has come. Rob Friesel, author of The PhantomJS Cookbook

A fantastic short read that is worth picking up for any lover of computer science or literature. I cannot recommend it enough. The Eckleburg Project

Bring some fun inspiration to the software developer in your life. Monique DeVoe, for Embedded Computing Design

Twenty-five famous authors, lots of JavaScript, lots of prose and poetry. What’s not to like? Put “If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript” on your shopping list. Alan Zeichick, for SD Times

Looking forward to a tech book for the first time in a long time. [This] is going to be rad. Brian LeRoux, creator Phone Gap

Best hypothetical question we've heard in a while. The Millions

I'm so excited by the "If Hemingway wrote JavaScript" book by the completely brilliant Angus Croll. Robert Nyman, Mozilla Tech Evangelist, Editor of Mozilla Hacks

You should have this book at hand at all times...so whenever you start feeling disheartened, unmotivated or simply bored with what you are doing...you'll look at it's chapters and remember that programming can be fun. That, beyond good and bad parts, beyond best practices and the professional fences with which we surround ourselves, those LEGO sets that we call programming languages, can and should be played with. Javier Alba, JavaScript developer, voracious reader

Sweet, edifying and laugh-out-loud funny. Patrick Ewing, Twitter hall-of-famer, esteemed rubyist and coiner of "duck-punching"

Code, literature and art are beautifully represented in @angustweets' new book. Jenn Schiffer, Bocoup engineer, celebrity speaker, comedian

I really, thoroughly enjoyed the book...Angus is hilarious, well-read, and a great writer. Alex Sexton, engineer at Stripe, Modernizr core team, jQuery Board of Directors, Dojo Foundation Board

Yes, If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript by @angustweets is cool. Brendan Eich, inventor of JavaScript, co-founder of Mozilla

Probably my favorite book about programming. This year's for sure. Totally enthralled. Steve Klabnik, author Rust for Rubyists, web celebrity

Last night I read If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript, twice, then pre-ordered a physical copy. Rick Waldron, creator of Johnny-Five and JavaScript standards author

A thought experiment, appealing to Javascript and literary nerds alike. Dan Shurley, for Nomadic Press

Wild experiments are what moves a genre forward. And this is a format of programming book that's certainly never been tried before. Marijn Haverbeke