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adunkman · adunkman · commit 66c2a92cc9f5 · 2012-07-31T08:26:33.000-05:00
diff --git a/code-samples/01-counting-to-ten-thousand/01-sync.js b/code-samples/01-counting-to-ten-thousand/01-sync.js
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+var number = 1;
+
+var count = function () {
+   console.log(number);
+   number = number + 1;
+};
+
+while (number <= 10) {
+   count();
+}
+
+console.log("Hello from down here!");
diff --git a/code-samples/01-counting-to-ten-thousand/02-async.js b/code-samples/01-counting-to-ten-thousand/02-async.js
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+var number = 1;
+
+var count = function () {
+   console.log(number);
+   number = number + 1;
+};
+
+var loop = function () {
+   if (number <= 10) {
+      count();
+      process.nextTick(loop);
+   }
+}
+
+loop();
+
+console.log("Hello from down here!");
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
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+# Beginner's Workshop for Node.js
+
+## Friday: Workstation setup
+If you've never programmed or never programmed in Node.js before, come on Friday evening with your laptop for one-on-one help installing the dependencies needed to write and run Node.js applications. 
+
+- Introduction to the command line on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux
+- Explanation of dynamic vs. compiled languages
+- Installation Node.js
+- Tour of the `node` and `npm` commands
+- Resources for Node.js beginners
+- Rundown of Saturday's schedule
+
+## Saturday: Workshop
+Come on Saturday to learn "How to Node." We'll walk through creating applications, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Node.js, and individually deploy web sites to "the cloud!"
+
+- History and introduction to JavaScript
+- Explanation of event-based concurrency as compared to process-based concurrency (and what concurrency is!)
+- Code 1: Counting to ten using event-based callback concurrency
+- The two patterns of concurrency: callbacks and EventEmitters
+- Code 2: Counting to ten using EventEmitters
+
