milewski-ctfp-pdf VS elm-architecture-tutorial

Category Theory for Programmers by Bartosz Milewski (https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf/releases)

Strangely similar name to the well-known 'Category Theory for Programmers'

https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf

There's this, but the programmer doesn't have to be working:

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...

Milewski's "Category Theory for Programmers".

(3) category theory. I was never advised to read any, but found that bartosz's introduction really good. https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/. Helps to rewire the brain.

It's also possible to model programming languages using category theory, but I know less about that. If you're interested in following this up, then Benjamin Pierce has what I'm told is a good introduction to category theory for computer scientists, and Bartosz Milweski has an online book (it might be available in hard copy as well, I'm not sure) called Category Theory for Programmers. I believe simple programming languages like the simply typed lambda calculus end up being modelled as Cartesian closed categories.

I'm learning Haskell right now, pure functional language, but if anyone is interested, Elm is based on Haskell and much easier to learn. Elm is a web development language that compiles to JS. https://guide.elm-lang.org/

Elm is a different approach that compiles into JavaScript. In the extreme case, you have Emscripten which will compile many language into JavaScript but will feel really clumsy compared to using JavaScript in a lot of cases.

And if you want to stay in the UI realm, Elm is a good introduction into functional programming.

If you want to get better at data structures you should strongly consider learning a functional language. A huge part of functional programming is manipulating data structures. The language Elm is a great place to start for you since it's frontend specific. For example, check out the doc page for the Dict data type and see if that kind of stuff is what you're looking for.

https://guide.elm-lang.org/ for a high level guide, and an unstyled button example https://elm-lang.org/examples/buttons.

I hope this tiny guide was helpful, and that you learned something new today. If you want to learn more about Elm, you should check out the official guide or say hello in the Elm Slack #beginners channel

https://guide.elm-lang.org/ is always a solid example for me

After going through the whole Introductory Guide to the Elm Language and reading the Elm in Action book, I already felt quite comfortable developing webapps in this paradigm. I liked Elm so much that I started a project to teach programming to beginners using this language and made the first classes available on the website elm.dev.br (in Brazilian Portuguese).