Jump Start CoffeeScript Get up to Speed with CoffeeScript in a Weekend

Name: Jump Start CoffeeScript Get up to Speed with CoffeeScript in a Weekend
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ISBN: 9780987247827

ISBN-10: 0987247824

ISBN-13: 9780987247827

Edition: 2012

Authors: Earle Castledine, Earle Castledine

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A practical and concise introduction to CoffeeScript, a programming language that compiles into JavaScript and that makes working with JavaScript easier. The book lays out the basics of the language, its syntax, and the interesting features that set it apart from JavaScript. It should satisfy anyone with an intermediate level of understanding of JavaScript who needs a conceptual and practical introduction to CoffeeScript.The book is based around a practical project, leading you through the building of a simple HTML-based 2D game, and explaining the language's philosophy, syntax, and features step-by-step along the way. You'll be able to see results on-screen from the very beginning,…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: SitePoint Pty, Limited
Publication date: 1/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 164
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.38" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Sporting a Masters in Information Technology and a lifetime of experience on the "web of hard knocks", Earle Castledine (Mr Speaker) holds an interest in everything to do with computers. A Senior Systems Analyst and JavaScript expert - he is equally happy in the muddy pits of .NET code as in the fluffy fields of client-side interaction development. Co-creator of the client-side opus TurnTubelis, Earle recognizes the Internet not as a lubricant for social change, but as a vehicle for unleashing frivolous ECMAScript gadgets and interesting time-wasting technologies.



Preface


Who Should Read This Book


Conventions Used


Code Samples


Tips, Notes, and Warnings


Supplementary Materials


Challenge Yourself


Friends of SitePoint



Getting Started


HTML5 Game Jam Challenge


The Basics


Missing Cruft


Whitespace


Comments


Types, Variables, and Scope


Functions


Starting the Game Project


Installing: an Overview


Client-side Compilation on the Fly


Installing CoffeeScript Properly


Choosing Our Tech


Document Object Model


Canvas


Further Options


Drawing Something: Using Canvas


We're on Our Way



CoffeeScript Fundamentals


More of the Basics


Setting Up Our Project


alert versus console.log


Returning to JavaScript


Strings


Conditionals and Operators


Loops and Ranges


Objects and Arrays


Introducing Professor Digman-Rï¿½nner


The Canvas API


Context and Soaking up Nulls


Drawing Primitives


Draw an Image


Processing a Sprite Sheet


Random Map


Ready to Rumble



Features to Boost Your Game


Team Meeting


Functions Revisited


Default Argument Values


Function Gotchas


List Comprehensions


Creating a Level


Building Larger Projects


Removing the Safety Wrapper


Compiling a List of Files


Getting Serious with Cake


Handling Player Input


Dispatching with Switch


Adding the Professor


And There Was Light!



Game Loop and Classes


The Game Loop


Improving Our Loop


Looping with RequestAnimationFrame


Classes


Constructor and Auto Properties


Class Inheritance


Game Classes


The Level Class


The Block Class


Loading Levels


Driving a Level


Kicking It All Off


Adding New Blocks


Stay Classy



Bringing a Game to Life


Block Collision Detection


Destructured Assignment 1: Arrays


Splats


Gravity


Ladders


Collecting


Testing Class Types


Collision


Ninja Al


Destructured Assignment 2: Objects


Adding the Al Rules into the Code


Power to the Professor


Digging Holes


Building Blocks


Set for Life



CoffeeScript and HTML5 FX


HTML-ifying things


Using jQuery


CSS Effects


Canvas Scrolling


Audio and Sound Effects


Animation


Walk Animation


Falling Animation


Screens and Dialogs


Particles


Game Over



Epilogue


And on the Seventh Day


Index