How about teaching it in typescript + react? Typescript is way better than vanilla javascript, while still being reasonably mainstream and not too different-looking.
martin On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Robert Muller <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm teaching a full-semester course on Web Apps this spring. It's my first > time through so I have a lot to learn. I'm a long-time functional > programmer (mostly ML: SML & OCaml). If I wasn't worried about my students > getting jobs and internships the choice would be obvious: I'd teach Elm! > But the students are taking the course to get jobs and internships and I > have to respect that so I'm looking for advice. > A couple of former students in industry tell me that I definitely need to > cover back-end issues. So I'm considering teaching the front 3/4 of the > course using Node.js + React.js and then integrating Elm in the advanced > topics part during the last 1/4 might be reasonable. > > But maybe not. Please tell share your thoughts with me! > > Bob Muller > Boston College > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
