I finished a book for beginners wanting to learn elm. I walk through creating a calculator. I also cover testing and deployment.
My motivation was to have material to help me introduce elm at my workplace.
See https://pianomanfrazier.com/courses/#learn-elm-by-example-code-a-calculator-using-elm-from-scratch
Use code “elmrocks” for 50% off.
And here is the calculator I built.
https://elm-calculator.netlify.com/
I’m looking for resources to learn Elem. And frankly I’m not very impressed by your book right now.
Here’s why.
Thanks for reading my criticism, hope you find it useful and not personally attacked.
No offense taken. I’ll make it better if I can. I want it to be helpful.
On my site I have a link to a PDF of the first couple of chapters. Heres the link again https://pianomanfrazier.com/files/elm-calculator-sample.pdf
What puts you off about the example? I did a CSS clone of DuckDuckGo’s calculator. I just did a RPN style calculator instead of the traditional calculator. This way we can avoid parsing.
Is it that it looks ugly or you are not a fan of RPN style calculators? I have plans to add a chapter on doing parsing with the Parser module but I wanted to keep things simple.
As for exercises, I suggest you just try to build the demo I provide. Maybe you can do it without the book. If you get stuck maybe the book will help you. Building the project from scratch is the exercise. I try to point you in the right direction and then show you how I did it.
Nothing specifically put me off about calculator, I just find it unexcited specifically because I’m exited about Elm. I hear about Elm this, Elm that, Elm is awesome.
So I got interesting to try it out, and the last thing I want is to build calculator 
. Not only that, but keep in mind most people who want to use Elm are already programmers (I’m guessing), so I guess they don’t need a lot of hand holding. But again, I think you did research your demographic before you started the book so you probably adjusted the pace for them/us.
@Marko Elm is very much directed at both experienced programmers and non-programmers. Additionally it’s very beneficial for communities to have learning material directed at both experts and novices.
As far as looking for resources for Elm, I started a collection at https://wolfadex.github.io/elm-resources/. It definitely doesn’t cover every topic and is still missing things like books. It’s still early though and I hope that it can be useful.
@wolfadex thanks for doing that.
I’m Getting through the first resource “Getting Started” official guide, which I find so
incredibly useful.
Yeah, for whatever reason I looked the world from only my perspective and
unintentionally exerted to much criticism towrds the @pianomanfrazier.
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