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Elixir Course (Simon Thomson)
FutureLearn
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2020 · score 0.7
A FutureLearn online course on the Elixir programming language, taught by Simon Thomson. It covers the language itself rather than the BEAM virtual machine as such.
One commenter says Simon Thomson's FutureLearn course was good, listed alongside Pragmatic Studio's Elixir resources.
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Disclaimer: This is primarily about language... not BEAM as such. Also, links are inline.
I liked the book Programming Elixir 1.6 By (Pragmatic) Dave Thomas. Solved the exercises. Did not quite find use for macros. And I have not done any production projects.
The pragmatic studio has some courses for the space: elixir, OTP, LiveView, etc. and free tutorials. The quality is good. Simon Thomson's course on futurelearn was also good. https://pragmaticstudio.com/ and https://www.futurelearn.com/
A recurrent problem for me though has been to write an application. I used to write java's petclinic/petstore application when learning a framework, library, etc. Have not been able to do so with some other ecosystems... perhaps laziness, perhaps have not been able to answer why. And languages in isolation have not clicked for me much apart from maybe making me think in different ways.
Why does this Erlang/Elixir/BEAM interest me then? A colleague who talked highly of it... Then there's Joe, his talks, and Alan Kay's recommendation has Joe's thesis on recommended reading list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20653453
There is also Erlang Masterclass series 1,2,3 starting here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR812eVbehlwEArT3Bv3U...