coen.bakker
Elixirland - a collection of assignments, each with an idiomatic example solution
Since I started using Elixir, I have benefited greatly from being able to study various open-source projects. The codebase of LiveBook, in particular, has been a valuable resource for me. However, I also found that having access to a broader range of projects would have been even more beneficial (and from what I gather I am not to only one!).
This is what drove me to create Elixirland — a collection of assignments, each with an idiomatic example solution, intended as a learning resource. The goal is to provide learners with a diverse range of open-source solutions to well-defined problems (i.e., the assignments) and to encourage community discussions around these solutions.
Currently, my focus is on making a few assignments public to get the ball rolling. Over time, and with your feedback, the assignment descriptions and example solutions will be improved. Ensuring that the code in the examples is indeed idiomatic is important, though early versions may need refinement.
One challenge I anticipate is addressing the varying levels of consensus on what is “the right way” of solving different parts of an assignment. My aim is to implement Elixirland in a way that helps users understand where consensus is strong and where is might be weaker. Over time, I will be able to focus more on tackling this aspect.
Go to elixirland (Elixirland) · GitHub to find out more about Elixirland.
Currently, one assignment is public. It’s called Xl Phoenix API and can be found here: GitHub - elixirland/xlp-book-club-API: Build a simple web API for a book club with Phoenix. · GitHub. As you can see, writing tests and documentation are also part of the assignment.
Contributions are welcome.
P.S. Elixirland will also be accessible at https://elixirland.dev. Coming soon. I’ll post when online.
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D4no0
OK, this is extremely neat, I was thinking of doing something like this but by breaking bigger projects into smaller pieces.
I am ready to be a full contributor, count me in.
D4no0
Even without junior or mid elixir jobs, you can cry in 90% of cases when looking at a elixir codebase that was written by someone that switched to elixir and still writes in the way it used to in their previous languages, and there are countless cases when this happens in companies, one of them I discovered recently.
The biggest value I see from this platform is teaching of how to write “standard” code, in a manner how credo enforces consistency at syntax level. At the same time this also means that the focus of the assignments should be on quality, not quantity. Each example should prove excellence in all aspects of what it makes a good codebase, namely: simplicity/clarity/documentation/tests.
coen.bakker
A humble first version of https://elixirland.dev/ is now online.
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