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title = "Introducing Elixir: Getting Started in Functional Programming - Simon St.Laurent, J. David Eisenberg"
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date = 2020-07-24
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tags = ["books", "reviews", "simon st laurent", "j david eisenberg", "it",
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"elixir", "books:2020", "4 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18194084-introducing-elixir):
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Authors Simon St. Laurent and J. David Eisenberg show you how to write simple
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Elixir programs by teaching you one skill at a time. You'll learn about
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pattern matching, recursion, message passing, process-oriented programming,
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and establishing pathways for data rather than telling it where to go. By the
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end of your journey, you'll understand why Elixir is ideal for concurrency and
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resilience.
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{{ stars(stars=4) }}
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In a way, this is an "Introducing" book, so one shouldn't expect some deep
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knowledge about the language after reading it. But also, sometimes it feels a
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bit too "shallow" to gather some proper understanding of the language.
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One thing that kept bugging me was the fact that code kept changing: Not in
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the "going forward" kind of change, which is good, explain the basic, then
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start adding more complex/shorter solutions, but "let me bend this to another
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direction and completely ignore that direction later".
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But to get a "feeling" of the language, it is a good book.
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