diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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index 0000000..3b4a2a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Console Progress Bar
+
+Simple progress bar for long-running operations.
+
+## Java/Groovy
+
+Build with gradle:
+
+    gradle assemble
+
+
+Example usage:
+
+```java
+import com.jdbernard.util.ConsoleProgressBar
+
+// ...
+
+ConsoleProgressBar progressBar = new ConsoleProgressBar()
+progressBar.setOut(System.out) // optional
+progressBar.setMax(100)
+
+for (int i = 0; i <= 100; i++) {
+  progressBar.update(i, "Message for " + i);
+  Thread.sleep(500);
+}
+```
+
+## Nim
+
+Install the library using nimble:
+
+    nimble install
+
+Example usage:
+
+```nim
+import os, console_progress
+
+var progress = newProgress(sout = stdout, maxValue = 100)
+
+for i in 0..100:
+  progress.updateProgress(i, "Message for " & i)
+  sleep(500)
+```
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 78c4cb8..729d92f 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ apply plugin: "groovy"
 apply plugin: "maven"
 
 group = "com.jdbernard"
-version = "1.0"
+version = "1.1"
 
 repositories {
     mavenLocal()
diff --git a/console_progress.nimble b/console_progress.nimble
index 32b6e75..e48ebb9 100644
--- a/console_progress.nimble
+++ b/console_progress.nimble
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Package
 
-version       = "1.0"
+version       = "1.1"
 author        = "Jonathan Bernard"
 description   = "Utility for writing dynamic progress bars to the console."
 license       = "BSD"
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/com/jdbernard/util/.ConsoleProgressBar.groovy.swp b/src/main/groovy/com/jdbernard/util/.ConsoleProgressBar.groovy.swp
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diff --git a/src/main/groovy/com/jdbernard/util/ConsoleProgressBar.groovy b/src/main/groovy/com/jdbernard/util/ConsoleProgressBar.groovy
index 9736216..a29770d 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/com/jdbernard/util/ConsoleProgressBar.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/com/jdbernard/util/ConsoleProgressBar.groovy
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ package com.jdbernard.util
  * counter is 1-based because the current step is complete for this counter.
  * @author Jonathan Bernard (jdbernard@gmail.com)
  */
-class ConsoleProgressBar {
+public class ConsoleProgressBar {
   int MAX_STEP = 30
 
   long max = 10
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class ConsoleProgressBar {
   public void setMax(long max) {
     this.max = Math.max(max, 1) }
 
-  void update(long value, String info) {
+  public void update(long value, String info) {
     if (value == 0 || startTime == 0)
         startTime = System.currentTimeMillis()
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class ConsoleProgressBar {
     out.flush()
   }
 
-  void erase() {
+  public void erase() {
       out.print '\b' * lastLinePrinted.length()
       out.print ' ' * lastLinePrinted.length()
       out.print '\b' * lastLinePrinted.length()