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Play by Play: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with Lea Verou

by Lea Verou and Geoffrey Grosenbach

In this live coding session, W3C member and front end development expert Lea Verou implements the classic Conway's Game of Life in the browser using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

What you'll learn

Watch a live coding session in which Lea Verou implements the classic Conway's Game of Life in the browser using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Play by Play is a series where you get a rare view into the workflows and thought processes of top admins, developers, and designers. This is not a planned or rehearsed presentation, but a live, unrehearsed problem solving and troubleshooting session where you see an expert think through issues and design solutions, as they do in the real world every day.

About the authors

Lea Verou is a web standards geek / front-end engineer / web designer / speaker currently living in Greece. In the past, she has worked for W3C/MIT. Lea was the co-founder of a Greek startup called Fresset Ltd., although these days her focus has shifted from it. Look for her upcoming book for O'Reilly, titled "CSS Secrets." She is passionate about web standards, especially JavaScript and CSS. She makes tools that help other developers working with them, and speaks about them in conferences arou... more

Geoffrey founded PeepCode and has created numerous courses on Ruby, JavaScript and Shell. He commits code at https://github.com/topfunky.

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