I've been thinking about how I'll give a talk about Elm (at a JS event in Nottingham, UK). To demonstrate Model-Update-View, I think I'll start with the Counter example, but instead of in code, in real life. So I'd say "I'm a counter, I'm on 0. Increment and Decrement me." and end up with a room of people yelling "Up" and "Down" with me going "4! 5! 4! 3!". Then we'll code it.
Just thought your 14-16 yos might find that fun and illustrative. On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 6:33:04 AM UTC+1, Fedor Nezhivoi wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > Evan, Richard and the whole community as well as Elm language itself do a > great job in teaching community. If you are staying with this community for > a long time, you probably already can notice some improvements in your > understanding of programming, API design, abstractions and etc. How can we > take it even further? > > > Recently I got an opportunity to share some knowledge about functional > programming and programming in general. However target audience are > children (mostly 14-16 y.o.) and I am a little bit stuck. Not only I've > never been a teacher, but with children I expect it to be even harder > because of curse of knowledge. On the other hand trying to teach some > boring basics doesn't feel right, to be interesting it should be kind of > journey. > > > Previously there was some information about courses in USA where children > are thought programming with Elm. So I am kindly ask people who are doing > this to share your experience, tips, tricks and whatever may be helpful. It > would be even better if you can share some actual > content/topics/lessons/exercises. If you know exact person, but they are > not here, please, provide me with contacts. > > > *I am kindly ask you to abstain from discussions and only participate if > you have something concrete.* > > > Have a nice day! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
