<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8890583713073283" style="font-family: Times; "><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Hello Hackers!</span></div><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">This week (Tuesday at 7pm in the MSB Library) we thought we should get back to web development and talk about preprocessing languages that are available. We will cover </span><a href="http://sass-lang.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Sass</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> for CSS and </span><a href="http://coffeescript.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">CoffeeScript</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> for Javascript both of which are detailed below. These are some key languages to learn for the web development space and will make you an even better coder! What’s even better is that you can start using these for your Rails projects that we started last week. As always come hungry and lets have a good time learning some wicked cool languages.</span></div><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><a href="http://sass-lang.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Sass</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">(Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) is an extension of CSS3, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It's translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.</span></div><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><a href="http://coffeescript.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">CoffeeScript</span></a><span style="font-size: 19px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath that awkward Java-esque patina, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.</span></div><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Hack an awesome iPhone!</span></div><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">- hacKSU</span></div><br></b></body></html>