Adding books + screencasts to the homepage

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         <a href="#regexes">Extended Regular Expressions</a>
         <a href="#cake">Cake, and Cakefiles</a>
         <a href="#scripts">"text/coffeescript" Script Tags</a>
-        <a href="#resources">Examples and Resources</a>
+        <a href="#resources">Books, Screencasts, Examples and Resources</a>
         <a href="#change_log">Change Log</a>
       </div>
     </div>
@@ -926,6 +926,51 @@ Expressions
 
     <h2>
       <span id="resources" class="bookmark"></span>
+      Books and Screencasts
+    </h2>
+
+    <p>
+      There are a number of excellent books and screencasts to help you get 
+      started with CoffeeScript, some of which are freely available online.
+    </p>
+
+    <ul>
+      <li>
+        <a href="http://arcturo.github.com/library/coffeescript/">The Little Book on CoffeeScript</a>
+        is a brief 5-chapter introduction to CoffeeScript, written with great
+        clarity and precision by 
+        <a href="http://alexmaccaw.co.uk/">Alex MacCaw</a>.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <a href="http://autotelicum.github.com/Smooth-CoffeeScript/">Smooth CoffeeScript</a>
+        is a reimagination of the excellent book
+        <a href="http://eloquentjavascript.net/">Eloquent JavaScript</a>, as if
+        it had been written in CoffeeScript instead. Covers language features
+        as well a the functional and object oriented programming styles. By
+        <a href="https://github.com/autotelicum">E. Hoigaard</a>.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <a href="http://pragprog.com/book/tbcoffee/coffeescript">CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development</a>
+        is <a href="http://trevorburnham.com/">Trevor Burnham</a>'s thorough 
+        introduction to the language. By the end of the book, you'll have built
+        a fast-paced multiplayer word game, writing both the client-side and Node.js
+        portions in CoffeeScript.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <a href="http://peepcode.com/products/coffeescript">Meet CoffeeScript</a>
+        is a 75-minute long screencast by <a href="http://peepcode.com/">PeepCode</a>.
+        Highly memorable for its animations which demonstrate transforming CoffeeScript
+        into the equivalent JS.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        If you're looking for less of a time commitment, RailsCasts'
+        <a href="http://railscasts.com/episodes/267-coffeescript-basics">CoffeeScript Basics</a>
+        should have you covered, hitting all of the important notes about CoffeeScript
+        in 11 minutes.
+      </li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <h2>
       Examples
     </h2>
 

diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
         <a href="#regexes">Extended Regular Expressions</a>
         <a href="#cake">Cake, and Cakefiles</a>
         <a href="#scripts">"text/coffeescript" Script Tags</a>
-        <a href="#resources">Examples and Resources</a>
+        <a href="#resources">Books, Screencasts, Examples and Resources</a>
         <a href="#change_log">Change Log</a>
       </div>
     </div>
@@ -1838,6 +1838,51 @@ <h2>
 
     <h2>
       <span id="resources" class="bookmark"></span>
+      Books and Screencasts
+    </h2>
+
+    <p>
+      There are a number of excellent books and screencasts to help you get 
+      started with CoffeeScript, some of which are freely available online.
+    </p>
+
+    <ul>
+      <li>
+        <a href="http://arcturo.github.com/library/coffeescript/">The Little Book on CoffeeScript</a>
+        is a brief 5-chapter introduction to CoffeeScript, written with great
+        clarity and precision by 
+        <a href="http://alexmaccaw.co.uk/">Alex MacCaw</a>.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <a href="http://autotelicum.github.com/Smooth-CoffeeScript/">Smooth CoffeeScript</a>
+        is a reimagination of the excellent book
+        <a href="http://eloquentjavascript.net/">Eloquent JavaScript</a>, as if
+        it had been written in CoffeeScript instead. Covers language features
+        as well a the functional and object oriented programming styles. By
+        <a href="https://github.com/autotelicum">E. Hoigaard</a>.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <a href="http://pragprog.com/book/tbcoffee/coffeescript">CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development</a>
+        is <a href="http://trevorburnham.com/">Trevor Burnham</a>'s thorough 
+        introduction to the language. By the end of the book, you'll have built
+        a fast-paced multiplayer word game, writing both the client-side and Node.js
+        portions in CoffeeScript.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <a href="http://peepcode.com/products/coffeescript">Meet CoffeeScript</a>
+        is a 75-minute long screencast by <a href="http://peepcode.com/">PeepCode</a>.
+        Highly memorable for its animations which demonstrate transforming CoffeeScript
+        into the equivalent JS.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        If you're looking for less of a time commitment, RailsCasts'
+        <a href="http://railscasts.com/episodes/267-coffeescript-basics">CoffeeScript Basics</a>
+        should have you covered, hitting all of the important notes about CoffeeScript
+        in 11 minutes.
+      </li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <h2>
       Examples
     </h2>