Intro to JavaScript

Intro to JavaScript and CoffeeScript

• What is JavaScript?
• Why do I care?
• What is CoffeeScript, then, and why are we using it?
• If this is supposed to add interactivity to a web page, where’s the interaction? Let’s see something cool.

Resources

• CoffeeScript
  • The Language
    • CoffeeScript
  • Tutorials
    • Smooth CoffeeScript
    • CoffeeScript Basics
    • Better JS with CoffeeScript
• Resources and References on Things to Interact with
  • Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)
    • Document Object Model
    • HTML 5
    • SVG
  • HTML 5
    • Dive into HTML5
    • HTML 5 Rocks
• JavaScript
  • References
    • JavaScript @ MDN
  • Tutorials
    • Thau’s JavaScript Tutorial
• Libraries
  • jQuery

Slides

You won’t see them during class, but there are some slides to my talk here.