Learning CoffeeScript
1h 48mIntermediate2014-03-28
Authors
Ray Villalobos
Senior Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning
Course details
Learning CoffeeScript allows front-end developers to write JavaScript more beautifully and efficiently. It gives your code an extra zing. This course teaches the best features from the CoffeeScript language, like splats and ranges, plus how to write common JavaScript commands more efficiently using CoffeeScript. Author Ray Villalobos also shows how to work with Gulp.js, a streaming build system for not only CoffeeScript, but also Sass, LESS, JavaScript, and CSS.
Learning objectives
What is CoffeeScript?
Setting up a project with Gulp.js
Adding CoffeeScript to your workflow
Dealing with array ranges
Working with conditional statements
Using loops
Working with splats
Learning objectives
What is CoffeeScript?
Setting up a project with Gulp.js
Adding CoffeeScript to your workflow
Dealing with array ranges
Working with conditional statements
Using loops
Working with splats
Skills covered
CoffeeScriptLearningProgramming LanguagesOpen SourceSoftware Development
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - What you should know
- 03 - Using the exercise files
1. Setting Up Workflows with Gulp.js
- 04 - What is CoffeeScript
- 05 - Using online tools to process CoffeeScript
- 06 - Comparing installation options
- 07 - Setting up a project with Gulp.js
- 08 - Creating simple JavaScript automation
- 09 - Adding a default task and live reloading
- 10 - Processing Sass files
- 11 - Adding CoffeeScript
2. Learning CoffeeScript
- 12 - Basic CoffeeScript syntax
- 13 - Using realistic assets
- 14 - Understanding variables
- 15 - Dealing with array ranges
- 16 - Working with conditional statements
- 17 - Using loops and comprehensions
- 18 - Adding basic functions
- 19 - Working with splats
- 20 - Using the switch statement
- 21 - Using aliases for this and other tidbits
Conclusion
- 22 - Next steps