Professional Javascript and Coffeescript

Love it or hate it, with richer client frameworks like backbone, spine and knockout and with server side frameworks like node.js, if you are a professional web developer, you are probably going to find yourself writing some Javascript in the future. It's also an interesting language. It has been described as a love child between Scheme and Java, it has prototypical rather than classical inheritance (thank you Self), and it has some really nice functional programming capabilities (along with some really horrible design decisions).
 
In three hours we're going to do a whirlwind, hands on tour of the language, teaching you the skills required to become a competent Javascript developer. We'll also briefly touch on Javascript testing using Jasmine and give a sneak peak into Coffeescript - a thin layer over javascript which reduces the syntactic noise, fixes some of the worst design decisions and even adds classes.
 
Prerequisites: This is a hands on workshop, so you'll need to bring a laptop and either a power brick or enough battery power to run your laptop for the three hours. Also, I'll be using google chrome, so you might find it easier to follow along if you have that installed.
 
Outline

• Background
• Language
• Testing
• Frameworks
• Coffeescript