Hi Tj, Thanks for the kind words! I'm really glad you liked the course. It seems like you understood what I was trying to do.
And I'm happy to hear that someone got so much benefit from my work. And you sound like a nice person! I hope to meet you some day. Thanks again. Rock on! Eric On Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 5:30:13 AM UTC-5, Tj Gabbour wrote: > > I asked to purchase it last Tuesday to coincide with my rare vacation, and > Eric happily obliged. Everyone’s different so YMMV; but using Kathy > Sierra’s terms <https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=37&v=tBioIUWEyzo> I feel > more of a “badass,” having gained a couple “superpowers”: > > - able to participate in conversations about Om/React.js > > > - got over the initial hump of making (and understanding without > nagging confusion) an eloquent single-page app > > > Educational techniques I’d like to steal when writing docs and mentoring: > > - Be upfront about gotchas, so learners aren’t stuck for hours > experimenting/googling for the right incantation. (Many stay “backend > programmers” because of all the mindless incidental complexity that web > programming entailed. This isn’t necessarily a commitment to ignorance; > could be a decision to learn other fulfilling things in their limited > lives.) > > > - When asking the learner to code, make it incremental so they can > focus on one idea at a time. (One chunk in an expert’s mind can be 2, 10 > or > 1000 chunks in a learner’s.) Yet make it safe to go on a limb when > inspiration strikes. (This course is very careful to let you easily revert > to a Known Safe State at each step.) > > > - A high road to gamification is when the learner helps someone, even > if just fictionally. (The low road appeals to base urges of accumulating > points; which maybe reflects a fantasy that their work has the same effect > on their bank account.) After all, many programmers are insulated from > users by Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Sales… not to mention those > programmers who secretly feel their jobs are unnecessary > <http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/>. For many, helping even an > obviously fictional person is still a step up. > > > - Slightly offtopic, but his free lesson on eval > <http://www.lispcast.com/the-most-important-idea-in-computer-science> > is by far the best, most demystifying presentation I’ve personally seen. > Found it more fun than watching Sussman implement it at the blackboard > > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m6hoOelZH8&index=13&list=PLE18841CABEA24090&t=4m06s>. > > (And Sussman is a tough act to beat.) > > > > On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 12:15:08 AM UTC+2, Eric Normand wrote: >> >> Hello, Clojurists! >> >> I've been working hard on my new course *LispCast Single Page >> Applications with ClojureScript and Om >> <http://www.purelyfunctional.tv/single-page-applications>.* It's an >> interactive course teaching the basics of building an application from the >> ground up. It's finished and it goes on sale on Monday, September 21. If >> you get on the mailing list >> <http://www.purelyfunctional.tv/single-page-applications#subscribe>, >> I'll let you know when the sale starts and *you'll get a discount code*. >> It will be $64 dollars and the sale will be 10% off. That's $57.60. The >> sale will last 48 hours. >> >> LispCast courses combine animations, screencasts, exercises, code, and >> more into a complete teaching package. I'm really happy to add *Single >> Page Applications* to the lineup. I've been incredibly proud of the >> progress ClojureScript has made to its development experience. Less than a >> year ago, the Clojure survey >> <https://cognitect.wufoo.com/widgets/a1n74s6k0s9hn8f/> showed that 63% >> of people thought it was hard to bring up a REPL and 42% thought debugging >> was too hard. There hasn't been a survey since that one, but with all of >> the work to get to a 1.7 release (including official REPLs on different >> platforms), it's looking so much better. I started the course back in June >> and things have stabilized a lot even since then. Thanks to everyone who >> worked on it. >> >> If you've been waiting to learn ClojureScript, things are really quite >> comfortable now. If you want to learn ClojureScript, please check out >> *LispCast >> Single Page Applications with ClojureScript and Om >> <http://www.purelyfunctional.tv/single-page-applications>.* >> >> Rock on! >> Eric >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
