Workshop: Getting started with Elm - Ghent

About this event

What is Elm?

Elm is a functional programming language for building front-end web applications. You can use either in place of JavaScript, or alongside it. Elm has benefits that are not present in most mainstream languages such as immutable values, stateless functions, type inference, pattern matching and automatic code formatting. It even has this amazing compiler that catches errors before you even run your code!

And last but not least, the Elm architecture is based on simplicity, so that we can just focus on solving the problem at hand and don’t have to spend time figuring out how to organise our code.

Key Takeaways!

• You’ll know the basic principles of functional programming
• You’ll be able to work with types and all the Elm basics
• You’ll be able to build a simple web app / game with Elm.

Summary

This workshop will teach you how to build a simple web app/game starting from zero knowledge of the Elm programming language. However, you do need to be comfortable with the concepts of programming, HTML and CSS. Oh and there are Pokémon involved!

Prerequisites

• You'll need to be familiar with the concepts of programming, such as variables and functions. (to be clear, this is not suited for people who’ve never programmed before)
• You’ll need HTML & CSS knowledge
• A good mood 😉

Our awesome instructor: Steven Vandevelde

Steven is a Belgium based functional programmer, working for a Canadian based company called MetaLab. He specialises in Elm, Haskell and Elixir, is fixated on making code as readable as possible and spends a lot of time on building a decentralised music player. When he’s not coding, he digs into reading philosophy books, studying Nikola Tesla’s readings of electrical engineering and playing Destiny 2.

Event Details

What's included in the ticket price?

The ticket price includes the event fee + food during the event and a small part will be added to our donation pool to cover some of the community expenses and future event costs.

You will gain access to our the learning materials that have been created specifically for this workshop. ✨ And, after the event you can still contact the instructor and ask questions related to the workshop.