Turbocharge the Web with Coffeescript

CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. The language adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby and Python to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability, as well as adding more sophisticated features like array comprehension and pattern matching. CoffeeScript compiles predictably to JavaScript, programs can be written with less code (typically 1/3 fewer lines) with no effect on runtime performance. In this session, you'll need your laptop as we code through Coffeescript basics. Please bring a laptop with either Chrome and Safari installed. The coding session can be done on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

In this session we'll look at different uses for Coffeescript in the development world. We'll look at how to use it with jQuery, for example, and also with an app framework like Titanium. We'll explore the language features, take a tour of using it in different environments, and write code to demonstrate its time-saving features. We'll also spend some time looking at using it for unit-testing. Coffeescript's language features also lend it to write more maintainable code - a topic that we will discuss in detail. Finally, we'll see how Coffeescript is being wrapped into larger app frameworks like node.js and Rails 3.1.

About Pratik Patel

Pratik Patel is the CTO of Atlanta based TripLingo (http://www.triplingo.com/). He wrote the first book on 'enterprise Java' in 1996, "Java Database Programming with JDBC." He has also spoken at various conferences and participates in several local tech groups and startup groups. He's in the startup world now and hacks iOS, Android, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Rails, and ..... well everything except Perl.

Pratik's specialty is in large-scale applications for mission-critical and mobile applications use. He has designed and built applications in the retail, health care, financial services, and telecoms sectors. Pratik holds a master's in Biomedical Engineering from UNC, has worked in places such as New York, London, and Hong Kong, and currently lives in Atlanta, GA.

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