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Story: We are teaching Functional Programming Wrong
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Story: We are teaching Functional Programming Wrong

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Adam Gordon Bell

August 3, 202046m 40s

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Today Richard Feldman shares his story of going from javascript developer to elm developer to functional programming teacher. Along the way, Richard finds that people are teaching functional programming wrong. We are teaching it in a way that misses how most industrial software developers learn best.

In this episode, Richard Feldman delves into Elm, his approach, and how to make teaching delightful.

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