How to reduce if else statements in javascript Videos

The JSconf logo should be animated more. It's not distracting enough. 

Any chance you can add order number so I know which videos to watch first and then which should be next? I absolutely think you guys are awesome teachers and I am learning a lot, but sometimes can get confusing, at least for me. 

Hey, Awesome Video... I now this sounds realllly nooby... but the thing is kinda not working for me. var vistor_name = prompt ("What is your name?"); alert ("Welcome, ' + vistor_name + '!'); Could someone please tell me what part of the code is wrong.. thanks. Sorry for the nobbyness :P

Thanks for the balanced presentation, Kyle. Way too much material on this topic is very poorly argued whilst simultaneously being hugely over-opinionated. I'm a semicolons guy purely due to a seriously misspent youth in C, C++, Perl and Java. I do find it hard to read some pieces of semicolon-free JS code because I find my brain is looking ahead onto the next line because there's no line terminator. Yet I can read Python and Ruby without any difficulties. Must be an association with C-style syntax. I'm going to try writing some JS without semicolons to see if I can 'cross-train' my brain...

Let me share "You Don't Know JS" author Kyle Simpson's view on this — which I've taken as my own: https://jumpshare.com/v/SNLjy1qJU4kXifWchWZU What do you think of this?

Stop ruining new coders, please!

You're still using semicolons in your code, you're just allowing the JS engine to insert them for you.

As a programmer I've learned to really value explicit language (yeah, not like that :). Unequivocal statements, when it matters, so that the computer / person I'm talking to really understands my intention. I'd argue that being unequivocal always matters when it comes to computers and explicit semicolons are part of that. That said, your screencasts are excellent and there's more to life than semicolons :)

Finally someone who explains why or why not to use semicolons instead of just using an emotional response to justify his preference. I might just try not using semicolons because of this.

Just my opinion here: but if you need to THINK about whether or not you should put a semicolon somewhere, that's probably an indication you haven't come to grasps yet with some of the core concepts of the language (or indeed, programming in general), so I would say it's not really helpful for beginners at all. It only helps them not think about things they probably SHOULD be thinking about. Furthermore, I don't like code practices that have exceptions, though in this case I'll admit they're fairly obscure exceptions.

I've barely started this video, and I already know that the most accurate part is the music at 0:11. (To be clear, not saying the rest isn't correct. Just saying that there are some things that we hold as facts, and there are some things that are indisputable laws of the universe, like gravity and the fact that JS people will argue over semicolons.)