Re: [elm-discuss] Re: Elm Architecture in Vanilla JS

2017-02-26 Thread Robert Muller
since you mentioned OCaml, maybe you'd be interested in > BuckleScript: https://github.com/bloomberg/bucklescript > > Robert Muller於 2017年2月25日星期六 UTC-5下午6時52分44秒寫道: > >> Greetings. I'm an OCaml guy, teaching Web Apps for the first time and >> finding my way through the insanity t

Re: [elm-discuss] Elm Architecture in Vanilla JS

2017-02-25 Thread Robert Muller
r-or-not-it-was-a-terrible-idea- > 4b14b1b2faff#.zgqzwurva > > Regards, > Witold Szczerba > > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Robert Muller <robert.mull...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Greetings. I'm an OCaml guy, teaching Web Apps for the first time and

[elm-discuss] Elm Architecture in Vanilla JS

2017-02-25 Thread Robert Muller
Greetings. I'm an OCaml guy, teaching Web Apps for the first time and finding my way through the insanity that is HTML + CSS + JS and trying to impart something sensible to students for how to structure their vanilla JS apps to conform to the the Elm Architecture (model-view-update). First time

Re: [elm-discuss] Tell me how to teach Web Apps

2016-11-21 Thread Robert Muller
stion. Bob On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 6:26:56 PM UTC-5, Martin DeMello wrote: > > 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 Mo

[elm-discuss] Tell me how to teach Web Apps

2016-11-21 Thread Robert Muller
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

[elm-discuss] Looking for Advice on Teaching Web Apps

2016-09-20 Thread Robert Muller
Greetings. I've been writing functional programs since about 1978, first in LISP 1.5, then Scheme, and finally ML for the last 25 years or so. I've volunteered to teach a Web Apps course at Boston College this spring. I've never taught it before. In the absence of job-hunting constraints that