Nowadays JavaScript has three different keywords to declare a variable — var, let and, const. Each has its own properties and particularities. Let’s start by making a simple comparison table ...

For example, using closures along with higher-order functions used to be the only way we could have “private” or tamper-proof variables in JavaScript: let protectedObject = (function() { ...

In last month's column, I walked through the two syntaxes for defining "function datatypes" in TypeScript. I showed the JavaScript-like syntax, which looks like this: var FirstName: (cust: Customer) ...

Unfortunately, this function immediately “forgets” the second value and never does anything with it. Our inner function, the one that currently just returns value1, also needs to be modified ...

This article provides an alternative method of finding the distribution of a function of one or more random variables using the Dirac generalized function. Unlike the conventional change-of-variable ...