Functional programming learning path

[AstonJ]

I come from an OOP background (Ruby!) and this is what I have done so far and highly recommend

Programming Elixir (Pragprog)

[image] by Dave Thomas This book is the introduction to Elixir for experienced programmers, completely updated for Elixir 1.6 and beyond. Explore functional programming without the academic overtones (tell me about monads just one more time). Create concurrent applications, but get them right without all the locking and consistency headaches. Meet Elixir, a modern, functional, concurrent language built on the rock-solid Erlang VM. Elixir’s pragmat…

Elixir In Action (Manning)

[image] by Saša Jurić Elixir in Action teaches you to apply the new Elixir programming language to practical problems associated with scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, and high availability. About the technology Elixir is a modern programming language that takes advantage of BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine, without the burden of Erlang’s complex syntax and conventions. Elixir gives you Ruby-like elegance with the power to develop bulletproof distributed server systems that can …

Elixir for Programmers (PragDave)

[image] You’re a programmer, so you don’t need spoon feeding with the conventional drivel about “this is an integer.” No. You need to know what’s different, and you want to know quickly. But you want more. True mastery of Elixir comes from understanding the underlying idioms: functional programming, transformations, concurrency, and application structure. You need to know the tools, such as IEx and mix. And you need to understand the frameworks, such as OTP and Phoenix. This course will get y…

Learn Functional Programming with Elixir (Pragprog)

Whoo hoo I finished it! Here’s… My Review I really enjoyed this book! I think it’s going to prove incredibly useful for those of us who are coming to Elixir as our first functional programming language. But before I go into the details, I want to say that this book reminded me that you should never judge a book by its cover!! Why? Well when I first heard about this book I immediately thought it was going to be Elixir’s version of the Ruby book by Chris Pine, called Learn to Program (an amazing…

That last one is an excellent look into functional programming

Check out my reviews in each of those threads for more of my thoughts on them too

I am currently reading…

Programming Phoenix (Pragprog)

[image] Don’t forget you can get 35% off the ebook using the code ‘devtalk.com’ Current: Search Original: Search For those looking for an update to this book, please see this post.

And am loving it as well