CoffeeScript, a simple languages that compiles to JavaScript and aims to make web developers’ lives easier, has just moved to a second major release, one that emphasizes syntax improvements.

This article's original author, Thau, has been working with JavaScript since its invention, and he created this five-part tutorial to teach you everything you need to know to begin your JavaScript ...

CoffeeScript makes a lot of changes to JavaScript's syntax, and uses JavaScript's object-oriented capabilities in a particular way, but doesn't fundamentally alter the way the language works.

If you've gone through Thau's basic JavaScript tutorial (or you already know a bunch about the subject), Thau's advanced JavaScript course is just for you. In the previous tutorial, Thau taught ...