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PredigtIn den Sommerferien haben wir das Privileg Gastsprecher bei uns zu haben. Heute ist David Koontz aus Düsseldorf bei uns.

Predigt In den Sommerferien haben wir das Privileg Gastsprecher bei uns zu haben. Heute ist David Koontz aus Düsseldorf bei uns.

Der TRAX Sommer - David Koontz

In this episode I talk with David Koontz.  We talk his introduction to functional programming, F#, Haskell, community building, the LambdaCast, and more. Our Guest, David Koontz @dkoontz on Twitter LambdaCast @lambdacast on Twitter Conference Announcements The Strange Loop coming! It will be held in St. Louis, MO on September 28-30, 2017 at the Peabody Opera House.  To submit your CfP, visit http://thestrangeloop.com/. PWLConf 2017 will be taking place September 28th in St. Louis, MO, before Strange Loop.  Visit http://pwlconf.org/ for more information and to stay updated on latest announcements. Open FSharp will be taking place the 28th-29th of September in San Francisco, California.  Visit openfsharp.org for more information and to register. elm-conf is returning to St. Louis on September 28, 2017 for a day of learning, speaking, and connecting with the Elm language community.  For more information and to register visit http://www.elm-conf.us/. RacketCon is October 7th &amp; 8th at the University of Washington, with keynote speakers Dan Friedman and Will Byrd.  Visit http://con.racket-lang.org/ for more information and to register. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Clojure October the 12th – 14th at the Clojure/Conj in Baltimore, Maryland.  Visit http://2017.clojure-conj.org/ for more information and to register. LambdaWorld will be taking place in Cadiz, Spain on October 26th and 27th.  For more information visit and to keep updated visit http://www.lambda.world/. CodeMesh is coming up November 8th and 9th in London.  For more information, and to keep an eye open for registration, visit http://www.codemesh.io/. Moonconf will be taking place the 9th-11th of November.  For more information visit http://moonconf.org/. Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th &amp; 16th of 2018.  For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/. LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland.  For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Announcements Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page. If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery. Topics [@5:09] About David LambdaCast How David got into software development Starting in I.T. and moving towards game programming First exposure to functional programming Java Python Ruby Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs SICP Lecture Videos Being unsure of how to apply functional programming ideas in game programming “Everything was harder than it should be” C# F# Real World Functional Programming Haskell Elm What clicked when understanding _Real World Functional Programming_ LINQ Trying to apply F# back to game development and day-to-day experience Unity Takeaways from trying to apply functional ideas back to C# RobotArms Pipeline operators and chaining Moving from F# to Haskell Haskell Programming from first principles Learn You Some Haskell Bouncing off Haskell and landing on Elm Retrying Haskell after Elm Trying to bring Elm to day-to-day work Electron GitKraken Flow TypeScript PureScript Bringing functional ideas back into the community Lunch and learns Meetups Lessons learned from the lunch and learns vs meetups Building something as a group in the monthly meetup Elm as front-end and Haskell as back-end languages Maybes vs Nulls Not having anything to hold onto when talking about different concepts Response about having different level of experience between hosts Advice for sharing your learnings as you progress “If you knew any more, you wouldn’t fill this important voice on the podcast” Aiming for a small, concise, irreducible version of an explanation Desert Code Camp “If you thinking of doing [a functional programming podcast] I want to lie to you and tell you it’s no work at all” Going to where people are Audience breadth of JavaScript or C# Idris Advice for community outreach “Realize nobody can be an expert in everything” Haskell Pyramid Resources for getting started in functional programming Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming Ramda Sanctuary lodash lodash/fp FP Chat Slack community Upcoming appearances LambdaConf 2018 MoonConf #lambdacast channel on FP Chat Slack community As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with David Koontz. We talk his introduction to functional programming, F#, Haskell, community building, the LambdaCast, and more. <h2>Our Guest, David Koontz</h2> <a href="https://twitter.com/dkoontz" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@dkoontz</a> on Twitter <a href="https://lambdacast.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">LambdaCast</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/lambdacast" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@lambdacast</a> on Twitter <h3>Conference Announcements</h3> The Strange Loop coming! It will be held in St. Louis, MO on September 28-30, 2017 at the Peabody Opera House. To submit your CfP, visit <a href="http://thestrangeloop.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://thestrangeloop.com/</a>. PWLConf 2017 will be taking place September 28th in St. Louis, MO, before Strange Loop. Visit <a href="http://pwlconf.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://pwlconf.org/</a> for more information and to stay updated on latest announcements. Open FSharp will be taking place the 28th-29th of September in San Francisco, California. Visit <a href="http://openfsharp.org" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">openfsharp.org</a> for more information and to register. elm-conf is returning to St. Louis on September 28, 2017 for a day of learning, speaking, and connecting with the Elm language community. For more information and to register visit <a href="http://www.elm-conf.us/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.elm-conf.us/</a>. RacketCon is October 7th &amp; 8th at the University of Washington, with keynote speakers Dan Friedman and Will Byrd. Visit <a href="http://con.racket-lang.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://con.racket-lang.org/</a> for more information and to register. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Clojure October the 12th – 14th at the Clojure/Conj in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit <a href="http://2017.clojure-conj.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://2017.clojure-conj.org/</a> for more information and to register. LambdaWorld will be taking place in Cadiz, Spain on October 26th and 27th. For more information visit and to keep updated visit <a href="http://www.lambda.world/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.lambda.world/</a>. CodeMesh is coming up November 8th and 9th in London. For more information, and to keep an eye open for registration, visit <a href="http://www.codemesh.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.codemesh.io/</a>. Moonconf will be taking place the 9th-11th of November. For more information visit <a href="http://moonconf.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://moonconf.org/</a>. Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th &amp; 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: <a href="http://clojuresync.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://clojuresync.com/</a>. LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit <a href="http://www.lambdadays.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.lambdadays.org/</a>. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. <h3>Announcements</h3> Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page. If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery</a>. <h3>Topics [@5:09]</h3> About David <a href="https://lambdacast.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">LambdaCast</a> How David got into software development Starting in I.T. and moving towards game programming First exposure to functional programming <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Java</a> <a href="https://www.python.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Python</a> <a href="https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Ruby</a> <a href="http://amzn.to/2wjWUwG" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs</a> <a href="http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">SICP Lecture Videos</a> Being unsure of how to apply functional programming ideas in game programming “Everything was harder than it should be” <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/csharp" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">C#</a> <a href="http://fsharp.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">F#</a> <a href="http://amzn.to/2wjSEgp" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Real World Functional Programming</a> <a href="https://www.haskell.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Haskell</a> <a href="http://elm-lang.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Elm</a> What clicked when understanding _Real World Functional Programming_ <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb308959.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">LINQ</a> Trying to apply F# back to game development and day-to-day experience <a href="https://unity3d.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Unity</a> Takeaways from trying to apply functional ideas back to C# <a href="https://github.com/dkoontz/robotarms" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">RobotArms</a> Pipeline operators and chaining Moving from F# to Haskell <a href="http://haskellbook.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Haskell Programming from first principles</a> <a href="http://learnyouahaskell.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Learn You Some Haskell</a> Bouncing off Haskell and landing on Elm Retrying Haskell after Elm Trying to bring Elm to day-to-day work <a href="https://electron.atom.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Electron</a> <a href="https://www.gitkraken.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">GitKraken</a> <a href="https://flow.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Flow</a> <a href="http://www.typescriptlang.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">TypeScript</a> <a href="http://www.purescript.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">PureScript</a> Bringing functional ideas back into the community Lunch and learns Meetups Lessons learned from the lunch and learns vs meetups Building something as a group in the monthly meetup Elm as front-end and Haskell as back-end languages Maybes vs Nulls Not having anything to hold onto when talking about different concepts Response about having different level of experience between hosts Advice for sharing your learnings as you progress “If you knew any more, you wouldn’t fill this important voice on the podcast” Aiming for a small, concise, irreducible version of an explanation <a href="https://oct2017.desertcodecamp.com/home" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Desert Code Camp</a> “If you thinking of doing [a functional programming podcast] I want to lie to you and tell you it’s no work at all” Going to where people are Audience breadth of JavaScript or C# <a href="https://www.idris-lang.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Idris</a> Advice for community outreach “Realize nobody can be an expert in everything” <a href="https://patrickmn.com/software/the-haskell-pyramid/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Haskell Pyramid</a> Resources for getting started in functional programming <a href="https://www.gitbook.com/book/drboolean/mostly-adequate-guide/details" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming</a> <a href="http://ramdajs.com/0.21.0/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Ramda</a> <a href="https://sanctuary.js.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Sanctuary</a> <a href="https://lodash.com/docs" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">lodash</a> <a href="https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/FP-Guide" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">lodash/fp</a> <a href="https://fpchat-invite.herokuapp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">FP Chat Slack community</a> Upcoming appearances LambdaConf 2018 <a href="http://moonconf.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">MoonConf</a> #lambdacast channel on FP Chat Slack community As always, a giant Thank You goes to <a href="https://www.twitter.com/davidjbelcher" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">David Belcher</a> for the logo design.

Functional Geekery Episode 105 - David Koontz