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A Collection of Exercises for Learning Erlang (Or Any Other Language)

61 points by diab0lic 15y ago

parley 15y ago
Personally, I've always liked creating a simple web server as a nice step in learning a language/stdlib. Some concurrency, some I/O, some string parsing, etc. Obviously it's not the first thing one does, but I find it a nice package to put together that actually achieves something real.
- diab0lic 15y ago
  Thats a fantastic idea for a decent sized project that will expose you to many aspects of the language and tools commonly used with the language. I'm going to include that one in the list.
- minikomi 15y ago
  I've been wanting to do this for a while (and should do it myself, i know) but if you had an example to use as reference I'd greatly appreciate it.
- signa11 15y ago
  couple of days back i started with writing a TFTP client+server program in erlang. the protocol is 'trivial' enough (to not get bogged down in complicated fsm's etc.) and still provides sufficient 'meat' to exercise core language features etc. it is still going on, but is definitely great fun...
gtani 15y ago
This could be a long list: SPOJ, topCoder, ICFP, google and Facebook etc comps, Language specific: 4clojure.org, blow your mind etc http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind
- SkyMarshal 15y ago
  You could include Project Euler in that list as well. http://projecteuler.net/ http://projecteuler.net/
onetimepad 15y ago
The really tough part of picking a new language is learning the idioms. If I handed you a book describing the French grammar and an English to French dictionary and told you to write some short stories, you might be able to put together something parseable by a Frenchman but you wouldn't be writing French. I don't pretend to have a good answer except reading and modifying other people's code seems to help.
lelele 15y ago
This is my favorite: http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2006/06/16/15-exercises-to-know-a-programming-language-part-1/ http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2006/06/16/15-exercises-to-...

61 points by diab0lic 15y ago

Personally, I've always liked creating a simple web server as a nice step in learning a language/stdlib. Some concurrency, some I/O, some string parsing, etc. Obviously it's not the first thing one does, but I find it a nice package to put together that actually achieves something real.

diab0lic 15y ago
Thats a fantastic idea for a decent sized project that will expose you to many aspects of the language and tools commonly used with the language. I'm going to include that one in the list.
minikomi 15y ago
I've been wanting to do this for a while (and should do it myself, i know) but if you had an example to use as reference I'd greatly appreciate it.
signa11 15y ago
couple of days back i started with writing a TFTP client+server program in erlang. the protocol is 'trivial' enough (to not get bogged down in complicated fsm's etc.) and still provides sufficient 'meat' to exercise core language features etc. it is still going on, but is definitely great fun...

gtani 15y ago

This could be a long list: SPOJ, topCoder, ICFP, google and Facebook etc comps, Language specific: 4clojure.org, blow your mind etc http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind

SkyMarshal 15y ago
You could include Project Euler in that list as well. http://projecteuler.net/ http://projecteuler.net/

onetimepad 15y ago

The really tough part of picking a new language is learning the idioms. If I handed you a book describing the French grammar and an English to French dictionary and told you to write some short stories, you might be able to put together something parseable by a Frenchman but you wouldn't be writing French. I don't pretend to have a good answer except reading and modifying other people's code seems to help.

lelele 15y ago

This is my favorite: http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2006/06/16/15-exercises-to-know-a-programming-language-part-1/ http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2006/06/16/15-exercises-to-...