I'd stick to JavaScript. It'll help them get jobs, it's what they'll use at work, and will equip them the best for doing their own projects (particularly Node). A semester is a lot shorter than you think, but you can mention Elm at the end if you want.
I honestly see no benefit of teaching it in Elm or TypeScript aside from personal preference. On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 6:23:56 PM UTC-5, Robert Muller 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.
