In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes try to stump each other with coding interview questions like what is a higher order component? What is functional programming? And more!

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Show Notes

00:26 Welcome
01:47 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response
03:00 Sponsor: Sentry
04:10 What is a higher order component?
05:34 What is functional programming?
09:00 What’s the purpose of cache busting and how do you achieve it?
Wes’ course for Beginner JavaScript
10:37 What is short circuit evaluation?
13:19 What is a closure?
15:49 What is the reason for wrapping the contents of a JavaScript source file in a function that is then invoked?
17:30 Can you describe how CSS specificity works?
20:15 How does prototypal inheritance differ from classical inheritance?
23:56 What is the difference between a parameter and an argument?

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