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installation instructions:

Go to http://nodejs.org/#download and download the installer.
open a command prompt and type npm install -g coffee-script
type coffee to start the repl.

About this workshop:

• Get a good text editor! You'll need an editor where you can use tabs as spaces, and preferably see where the tabs are. I use TextMate, but Sublime Text 2 is free and should suffice.
• As hinted above, in coffeescript, white space is very important. If you use tabs the compiler will produce incorrect output. So switch your editor to use spaces instead of tabs.
• You don't need to install node.js to use coffeescript. The compiler is written in coffeescript, which means you'll need a javascript runtime to compile your code. The official compiler uses node.js however, and so does the repl so i'd advise you to install it. The installation steps above will do this for you.

useful commands

• coffee - start the interactive repl
• coffee [filename] - run the provided coffeescript file
• coffee -p [filename] - print out the compiled javascript from the provided coffescript file
• coffee -c [filename] - compile the provided coffeescript file and write it out to a similarly named file