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Everything about Web IDL
Language used for web documents
Web IDL is an interface description language (IDL) format for describing APIs that are intended to be implemented in web browsers. Its adoption was motivated by the desire to improve the interoperability of web programming interfaces by specifying how languages such as ECMAScript should bind these interfaces. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Web IDLA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Learning PythonThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Easy web interfaces to IDL code for NSTX Data AnalysisCited 2 times
- Go sideways: Interface description languageA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Document Object ModelA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
📚 Books worth reading
Learning PythonMark Lutz, David Ascher · 1999
HackingJon Erickson, Jon Erickson · 2003
Automate the Boring Stuff with PythonAl Sweigart · 2015
Java enterprise in a nutshellJim Farley, David Flanagan · 1999
Raspberry Pi CookbookSimon Monk · 2014- 📕IDLS Web Site
Programming with Java IDLGeoff Lewis · 1998
Ask Tammy MannersTammy Manners · 2012
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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