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Off topic, but is there a recommended post detailing various online Erlang learning resources? I'm reading an O'Reilly book and playing around in the shell but

• scarmig 15y ago
  http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ Inspired by Learn You a Haskell. Haven't read all the way through it, but what I've seen looks good. There's also http://www.tryerlang.org/ http://www.tryerlang.org/ , which seems to be down right now.
• chops 15y ago
  And then there's also #erlang on freenode and the erlang-questions mailing list, the participants of which are quite friendly and helpful.
• seiji 15y ago
  The System Documentation section of erlang docs has well written getting started guides: http://erlang.org/doc/ http://erlang.org/doc/ -- they were the only reference we had before these silly books started showing up a few years ago. (implied: i was erlanging before it was cool. you probably hadn't heard of it back then.) Just remember to learn Erlang in layers. Vague order of learning: base language/runtime, APIs, more runtime, more APIs, concurrency, behaviors, nodes, more APIs, multi-nodes, ports, drivers, nifs, ...
• SoftwareMaven 15y ago
  Pragmatic Bookshelf's Programming Erlang book (written by Joe Armstrong, the inventor of Erlang) is a good starting point. If covers the basics of the languages as well as introducing ETS, OTP, and Mnesia.
• jasonwocky 15y ago
  Also the book "Erlang and OTP in Action". Great next-step book after the PragPub one (or even just skip the PragPub one).