Assessing Your Familiarity with JavaScript's Date Object Functionality
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A new programming quiz, known as the JS Date quiz by Samwho, is making waves in the JavaScript community. This quiz, designed to test one's knowledge of JavaScript's Date class, is more than just a challenge—it's a demonstration of the language's powerful type system and the elegant design of its Date class.
Recently completed by developer [Brodie Robertson], the quiz serves as a testament to the subtle genius of JavaScript's design. With 28 questions, it showcases how JavaScript's Date class handles complex date and time operations with an elegant and carefully designed API that leverages JavaScript’s dynamic typing and flexible object-oriented features.
Robertson found the questions to be logically and intuitively designed, leading him to a gradual crumbling of his mind as he navigated through the quiz. However, upon finishing, he was left astounded by the elegance and subtle genius of JavaScript's class design. He even went so far as to declare that such a language was designed by humans, not just thrown together haphazardly.
The experience of the JS Date quiz led Robertson to recommend the book "JavaScript: The Good Parts" for a new JavaScript convert. The book, written by Douglas Crockford, provides an in-depth look at the powerful features of JavaScript and serves as a guide for writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
In summary, the JS Date quiz functions not only as a test of one’s familiarity with JavaScript Date but also as a tribute to the language’s surprisingly robust and refined type system and class structure embodied by the Date class. It's a reminder that JavaScript, despite its reputation, is a language with a deep thoughtfulness behind its design, and one that is well worth mastering.
[1] For more details on the JS Date quiz and JavaScript's Date class, you can visit the quiz's official website: https://jsdate.samwho.dev/.
- The JS Date quiz, recently completed by developer Brodie Robertson, demonstrates JavaScript's type system and the elegant design of its Date class, making it clear that JavaScript is a language built with subtle genius by humans, not just thrown together haphazardly.
- JavaScript's Date class, as showcased in the JS Date quiz, handles complex date and time operations with an elegant and carefully designed API that leverage JavaScript’s dynamic typing and flexible object-oriented features, reflecting the deep thoughtfulness behind its design.
