TechTalkPrep

Place to jot notes on talk topics

Anvil Tech Talk Ideas:

• Practical Functional

  • first steps to functional programming
  • the advantages
  • the disadvantages
  • how to get started

• OOP in javascript & other lies your parents told you.

  • how objects work in javascript
  • prototype chain
  • classes are BS
  • composition is better

• Promises in JS

  • why promises are preferable over callbacks
  • quick implementation of a promise library
  • quick intro to async js

Topics

-> First class functions

-> Pure Functions

-> Imperative vs Declarative

-> Minimize mutability... Persistent Data Structures?

-> Simplicity is the Goal

• Build your own React

  • rebuild a front-end framework to see what's really going on under the hood
  • this could be a multi-part series where we continue building up to a final product

• State management systems and building Redux

  • Why use something like redux?
  • Do a full rebuild

• We should have stuck with LISP

  • Explain why LISPs were abondoned
  • What were the perks of LISP
  • Is it making a come back with clojure?

• Functional Lists (List out of Lambda)

  • build language functionality with nothing but functions (woot woot)

• Rust

  • introduction to rust
  • why is it so great
  • downfalls
  • how to get started

• Intro to Haskell

• Build a DSL in Haskell

• Build a LISP interpreter