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I keep coming back to the idea of learning erlang/elixir. Can you point out the resources you've been using? Functional programming is still a little foreign to
by spyspy 10y ago
I keep coming back to the idea of learning erlang/elixir. Can you point out the resources you've been using? Functional programming is still a little foreign to me.
- agd 10y agoFor Elixir you can work your way through the exercises on Exercism here: http://exercism.io/languages/elixir/about http://exercism.io/languages/elixir/about
- jetti 10y agoI also suggest trying to create an application and then work through the docs when you run into issues. I learned more from creating a mix task and reading the Elixir docs (which are amazing) than from the books I purchased
- sotojuan 10y agoSadly a lot of exercism exercises boil down to Regex and are generally uninteresting. Practicing Elixir/Erlang means practicing OTP/distributed computing. The core language takes at most a week to learn.
- jetti 10y agoI bought Programming Elixir 1.3, Metaprogramming Elixir and Programming Phoenix and started from there. Unfortunately I feel like I wasted my money on Programming Elixir and Programming Phoenix. The docs for both are Elixir and Phoenix are just amazing and really make the need for anything else unnecessary.
- nerdywordy 10y agoI'm in the process of learning Elixir currently. I'm completely new to functional languages but I've found this course (https://www.udemy.com/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootcamp-and-tutorial https://www.udemy.com/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootca...) to be an awesome introduction. I'm about halfway through and the explanations are top notch. I definitely recommend!