learnyounode/README.md

Learn You The Node.js For Much Win! An intro to Node.js via a set of self-guided workshops.

# Learn You The Node.js For Much Win!

**An intro to Node.js via a set of self-guided workshops.**

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  1. Install [Node.js](http://nodejs.org/)
  2. Run `sudo npm install learnyounode -g`
  3. Run `learnyounode`
  4. **.. profit!**

<b><code>learnyounode</code></b> will run through a series of Node.js workshops. Starting at a basic *"HELLO WORLD"* and moving on to more advanced exercises about dealing with synchronous & asynchronous I/O, filesystem operations, TCP and HTTP networking, events and streams.

Once you have finished <b><code>learnyounode</code></b>, graduate to <b><code>[stream-adventure](https://github.com/substack/stream-adventure)</code></b> for a set of exercises that dig in to Node's streams.

### Contributors

<b><code>learnyounode</code></b> is proudly brought to you by the following hackers:

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<tr><th align="left">Rod Vagg</th><td><a href="https://github.com/rvagg">GitHub/rvagg</a></td><td><a href="http://twitter.com/rvagg">Twitter/@rvagg</a></td></tr>
<tr><th align="left">Andrey Sidorov</th><td><a href="https://github.com/sidorares">GitHub/sidorares</a></td><td><a href="http://twitter.com/sidorares">Twitter/@sidorares</a></td></tr>
<tr><th align="left">Julián Duque</th><td><a href="https://github.com/julianduque">GitHub/julianduque</a></td><td><a href="http://twitter.com/julian_duque">Twitter/@julian_duque</a></td></tr>
<tr><th align="left">Lars-Magnus Skog</th><td><a href="https://github.com/ralphtheninja">GitHub/ralphtheninja</a></td><td><a href="http://twitter.com/ralphtheninja">Twitter/@ralphtheninja</a></td></tr>
<tr><th align="left">Tim Inman</th><td><a href="https://github.com/thehack">GitHub/thehack</a></td><td><a href="http://twitter.com/timinman">Twitter/@timinman</a></td></tr>
<tr><th align="left">Dan Flettre</th><td><a href="https://github.com/Flet">GitHub/Flet</a></td><td><a href="http://twitter.com/flettre">Twitter/@flettre</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>

## License

**learnyounode** is Copyright (c) 2013 Rod Vagg [@rvagg](https://twitter.com/rvagg) and licenced under the MIT licence. All rights not explicitly granted in the MIT license are reserved. See the included LICENSE file for more details.

**learnyounode** builds on the excellent work by [@substack](https://github.com/substack) and [@maxogden](https://github.com/maxogden) who created **[stream-adventure](https://github.com/substack/stream-adventure)** which serves as the original foundation for **learnyounode**.