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)

https://imagery.pragprog.com/products/557/elixir16.jpg 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 pragma…

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)

[image] by Ulisses Almeida Elixir’s straightforward syntax and this guided tour give you a clean, simple path to learn modern functional programming techniques. No previous functional programming experience required! This book walks you through the right concepts at the right pace, as you explore immutable values and explicit data transformation, functions, modules, recursive functions, pattern matching, high-order functions, polymorphism, and failure handling, all while avoiding side effect…

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: https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-4 Original: https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix/programming-phoenix

And am loving it as well