Acknowledgments

Thanks to Jeremy Ashkenas for creating CoffeeScript. Thanks to Michael Stephens at Manning for picking up a book on CoffeeScript, and to my editors at Manning—Bert Bates, James Hatheway, Jennifer Stout, and Renae Gregoire—who worked with me at various stages of manuscript development. Thanks also to Kevin Sullivan, Linda Recktenwald, Andy Carroll, Katie Tennant, and Mary Piergies, as well as technical proofreader Doug Warren, who worked with me during production—I was very impressed. Finally, thanks to publisher Marjan Bace for having patience with a book that took much longer to complete than anybody had initially expected.

Thanks to all the family, friends, and colleagues who read and provided feedback on early drafts. Thanks to the ThoughtWorks Sydney office for their patience with me while I balanced consulting with authoring.

Thanks to Nick Marino for the illustrations that brought Agtron and Scruffy to life, and for making sense of my sometimes-bizarre scripts.