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Copyright © 2011 Pragmatic Programmers, LLC All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior consent of the publisher Printed in the United States of America ISBN-13: 978-1-934356-78-4 Printed on acid-free paper Book version: P1.0—July 2011 www.it-ebooks.info WWW.EBOOK777.COM Free ebooks ==> ww www.ebook777.com w.ebook777.com oks ==> free ebo Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Preface Getting Started 1.1 Installing CoffeeScript 1.2 Text Editors for CoffeeScript 1.3 Meet ’coffee’ 1.4 Debugging CoffeeScript Functions, Scope, and Context 2.1 Functions 101 2.2 Scope: Where You See ’Em 2.3 Context (or, “What Is ’this’?”) 2.4 Property Arguments (@arg) 2.5 Default Arguments (arg =) 2.6 Splats ( ) 2.7 Project: 5x5 Input Parser 2.9 Exercises Collections and Iteration 3.1 Objects as Hashes 3.2 Arrays 3.3 Iterating over Collections 3.4 Conditional Iteration 3.5 Comprehensions 3.6 Pattern Matching (or, Destructuring Assignment) 3.7 Project: 5x5 Solitaire 3.9 Exercises www.it-ebooks.info WWW.EBOOK777.COM xi xiii xv 1 13 13 18 21 24 25 28 29 34 37 37 40 43 46 47 48 50 56 Free ebooks ==> ww www.ebook777.com w.ebook777.com oks ==> free ebo • viii Modules and Classes 4.1 Modules: Splitting Up Apps 4.2 The Power of Prototypes 4.3 Classes: Functions with Prototypes 4.4 Inheritance with ’extends’ 4.5 Project: Refactoring 5x5 4.7 Exercises 59 60 61 63 65 68 72 Web 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.7 75 76 76 77 79 80 88 Server-Side Apps with Node.js 6.1 What Is Node.js? 6.2 Modularizing Code with ’exports’ and ’require’ 6.3 Thinking Asynchronously 6.4 Project: Multiplayer 5x5 6.6 Exercises 91 91 92 93 97 105 Interactivity with jQuery The Tao of jQuery Manipulating the DOM Getting Selective Reacting to Events Project: Browser-Based 5x5 Exercises A1 Answers to Exercises A1.1 Functions, Scope, and Context A1.2 Collections and Iteration A1.3 Modules and Classes A1.4 Web Interactivity with jQuery A1.5 Server-Side Apps with Node.js A2 Ways of Running CoffeeScript A2.1 Web Consoles A2.2 Running CoffeeScript in Your Web App A2.3 CoffeeScript on Rails A2.4 CoffeeScript via Middleware A2.5 CoffeeScript on Node.js A2.6 Rapid Websites with Middleman A2.7 CoffeeScript for System Scripts 107 107 109 111 112 113 115 115 116 116 117 117 118 119 www.it-ebooks.info WWW.EBOOK777.COM Free ebooks ==> ww www.ebook777.com w.ebook777.com oks ==> free ebo • A3 Cheat Sheet for JavaScripters A3.1 Boolean Operators A3.2 The Existential Operator A3.3 Context and Prototype Accessors A3.4 Function Definitions A3.5 Conditionals A3.6 Property Existence A3.7 Iteration A4 Bibliography Index www.it-ebooks.info WWW.EBOOK777.COM 121 121 121 122 122 122 122 123 ix 125 127 Free ebooks ==> ww www.ebook777.com w.ebook777.com oks ==> free ebo • www.it-ebooks.info WWW.EBOOK777.COM x ... readers are saying about CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript 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