That is a very good point, you can make a lot of cool things in pure elm, I whipped up an incremental clicker in an hour a few days ago when I was screwing around, dead simple. ^.^
On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 4:44:53 PM UTC-6, joseph ni wrote: > > Hey Razi, > > That sounds great! I wish I was where you are now. In my first computing > course, I was expected to learn Haskell and assembly, we didn't have google > back then, nor wikipedia, blog sites, free online courses, and I was plenty > lost too. > > One of the most valuable experience that I got from uni was learning how > to be resourceful and learn things. Elm is a perfectly beginner friendly > language. It goes out of it's way to be beginner friendly. Don't let a lack > of html/css/js knowledge worry you. Get in there with a goal of what you > want to create and do it. > Join the elm slack channel and ask for help in #help, #general, > #beginners, pick up a free html/css course over at khan academy, codeschool > etc..., ask a class mate about stuff you're confused about, approach your > prof and tell him/her your worries. All these resources are there, so start > using it! > > I started doing elm 6 months ago, in that time, I've built up to ~7000 > lines in my game, it contains no javascript and the majority of the code > (~6500 lines) has nothing to do with html/css. > > Programming is about problem solving and creativity, Elm is an absolutely > fantastic language and you can't get much better than starting out with it > imo, so persist, give it your best and don't be afraid to try. See you on > elm slack ;) > > On Monday, 24 October 2016 08:22:22 UTC+11, Razi Syed wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, I've never programmed before and in my first year course >> we're doing Elm. The prof expects us to learn Elm on our own, and simply >> does examples in class applying what he thinks we should have learned. >> Problem is, I'm totally lost. Some people are telling me you're supposed to >> know HTML and CSS before Elm. Even the official elm guide seems like it >> assumes you know HTML and CSS and javascript (note: I simply know the names >> of these languages and nothing about them), or have programmed in a >> non-functional programming. >> > -- 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.
