Overview lectures

• JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition
• JavaScript. The Core (older ES3 version)
• JS scope: static, dynamic, and runtime-augmented

Essentials of Garbage Collectors

• Lecture 1: Allocation types
• Lecture 2: Manual memory management
• Lecture 3: Object header
• Lecture 4: Memory Layout
• Lecture 5: Mutator, Collector, Allocator
• Lecture 7: Semantic vs. Syntactic garbage
• Lecture 8: Tracing vs. Director collectors
• Lecture 9: Mark-Sweep collector

Parsing

• Syntax: language agnostic parser generator
• RegExp Tree: a regular expressions processor
• MIPS Assembly parser
• Rust LALR(1) parser generator
• hdl-js: HDL parser and Hardware simulator (online tool)

Building a RegExp machine

• Part 1: Regular grammars
• Part2: Finite automata — NFA fragments

ECMA-262-3 in detail

• Chapter 1. Execution Contexts
• Chapter 2. Variable object
• Chapter 3. This
• Chapter 4. Scope chain
• Chapter 5. Functions
• Chapter 6. Closures
• Chapter 7.1. OOP: The general theory
• Chapter 7.2. OOP: ECMAScript implementation
• Chapter 8. Evaluation strategy

ECMA-262-5 in detail

• Chapter 1. Properties and Property Descriptors
• Chapter 2. Strict Mode
• Chapter 3.1. Lexical environments: Common Theory
• Chapter 3.2. Lexical environments: ECMAScript implementation

Notes

• Note 1. ECMAScript. Bound functions
• Note 2. ECMAScript. Equality operators
• Note 3. CoffeeScript. Scheme on Coffee
• Note 4. Two words about “hoisting”
• Note 5. ECMAScript: Unresolved references
• Note 6. ES6: Default values of parameters

“Essentials of interpretation” course

• Intro
• Checkpoint: part 1
• Lesson 1. The simplest arithmetic expressions (AE) evaluator
• Lesson 2. Parsing. Lexer of AE in math infix notation
• Lesson 3. Parsing. Parser of AE in math infix notation
• Lesson 4. Working with environments. Variables and built-in functions
• Lesson 5. Simple user-defined functions
• Lesson 6. Inner functions, lambdas and closures
• Lesson 7. Derived expressions (“Syntactic sugar”)

Misc

• Using modern regexes in JavaScript
• Pattern Matching
• OO Relationships
• x86: More code – less code
• x86: Generated code optimizations and tricks

Theater

• Goethe, Faust: Pact of Mephistopheles and Dr.Faust, Part 1 (German)
• Goethe, Faust: Pact of Mephistopheles and Dr.Faust, Part 2 (German)