Sessions at CodeMash 2012 about CoffeeScript

Thursday 12th January 2012

• CoffeeScript is for Closers

  by Brandon Satrom

  CoffeeScript—that "little language" that compiles to JavaScript—has become something of a big deal in recent months. Is it all just hype, or does CoffeeScript really deliver on its promise to give us JavaScript without the bad parts? In this session, and with the aid of several Hollywood and pop-culture clichés, Brandon will provide a zero to working overview of CoffeeScript: how to get it, how to learn it and how to start using it in your projects.

  • CoffeeScript

  At 3:35pm to 4:35pm, Thursday 12th January

  In Salon E, Kalahari Waterpark Resort Convention Center

Friday 13th January 2012

• Beautiful Front End Code with Backbone.js and CoffeeScript

  by Chris Nelson

  It's time to write client side code we can love every bit as much as our server side code. After years of missteps and bad ideas, things are finally taking shape to let us do it. Coffeescript provides a beautiful syntax for writing javascript that causes the noise to fade away and our intent to shine through. Backbone.js gives us an elegant MVC framework that provides just enough structure and guides our client side code towards the kind of clean, reusable codebase we are used to from server side frameworks. Combining these with practices we know work such as Test Driven Development, there's no longer any excuse at all for ugly front end code. In this session I'll share my experience writing real applications this way and show how these excellent technologies fit together.

  • Backbone.js
  • CoffeeScript
  • JavaScript

  At 1:45pm to 2:45pm, Friday 13th January

  In Aloeswood / Leopardwood, Kalahari Waterpark Resort Convention Center