TL;DR: I built a little truck “game” to teach my son alphabets. I started watching http://javascript30.com a couple of days ago. It’s a series of 30 videos that uses vanilla Javascript to do amazing things. I have only done the first two videos in the series. Based on what I learned in those two videos, I decided to write a small game. My son is a fan of trucks, so I cobbled together a truck race that teaches him alphabets....
I went to attend the URUG (Utah Ruby Users Group) meeting today because a little birdy said there will be some Javascript related presentations. I got to see an awesome presentation by Tad Thorley on Coffeescript. It’s a minimalistic language that compiles to Javascript. Take a Javascript program and start removing unwanted literals from the syntax until you can’t remove anymore, that’s how a Coffeescript program looks like. Its the kind of minimalism that makes you appreciate the beauty of code....