Learn how to build an Elm application from start to finish.
Learn how to interoperate between Elm and JavaScript.
Learn how to organize Elm code using modules and The Elm Architecture.
Learn how to write unit tests for Elm applications.
Learn functional programming techniques that are useful both in Elm and in other languages.

Your (Awesome) Instructor

Richard Feldman

Richard is a functional programmer who specializes in pushing the limits of browser-based UIs. He’s built seamless-immutable, a JavaScript immutables library that seamlessly interoperates with normal JS collections; elm-css, a CSS preprocessor where you write Elm instead of CSS; and Dreamwriter, a long-form writing Web App written in Elm which works like a desktop app in the absence of an Internet connection.

Spend the Day Immersed With a Leading Elm Master

Workshop Details

Elm is a cutting-edge functional programming language that you can use either in place of JavaScript, or alongside it. Its amazing compiler catches errors before you even run your code—so effectively that Elm code has a reputation for never crashing. Come join Richard Feldman and learn how to build Elm applications from zero to production-ready. Find out why people say that learning Elm changed the way they wrote code in other languagesfor the better!

Daily Schedule

We'll begin Day One with an overview of Elm's benefits and syntax, then move on to building something with it. We'll write, refactor, and debug an Elm UI for searching GitHub repositories using their API. We'll end the day by interoperating with a JavaScript library.

Day 1

8:30AM
Tech Check and Hello
9:00AM
Elm Basics
10:00AM
Rendering Views
11:00AM
Handling Interaction
12:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM
Encoders and Decoders
2:00PM
Managed Effects
2:30PM
Client-Server Communication
3:30PM
JavaScript Interop
4:30PM
Further Reading and Wrap-up

Day 2

8:30AM
Tech Check and Hello
9:00AM
Projects and Packages
10:00AM
Composing and Pipelining
10:30AM
Testing
11:30AM
Optimizing Performance
12:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM
Tooling
1:30PM
The Elm Architecture
2:45PM
Styling with elm-css
3:30PM
Hacking
4:30PM
Further Reading and Wrap-up

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Is This Workshop for Me?

Summary

This workshop is for you if you're comfortable with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. The material assumes no prior Elm knowledge, familiarity with any particular JavaScript frameworks, or any functional programming experience. The workshop often uses JavaScript as a comparison point, to illustrate how concepts in Elm work differently than they do in JavaScript.

Any Prerequisites?

There is no need to be a JavaScript master, but familiarity is important to be able to follow these comparisons; someone who has never built anything in JavaScript will be in for a challenge
Since the workshop assumes no functional programming knowledge, some of the material may feel like old hat to veteran functional programmers, but only a small part of it
Most of the workshop is focused on building things in Elm

Event Details

What

2 Full Day Workshop Sessions

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When

September 8 to 9, 2016 - 9:30am to 5:30pm Central US Time

Where

Option 1: Attend online on our full HD live stream

Option 2: Attend in-person at HQ in Minneapolis, MN

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