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

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