diff --git a/content/reviews/books/21st-century-robot.md b/content/reviews/books/21st-century-robot.md index 2fd48d5..be8f083 100644 --- a/content/reviews/books/21st-century-robot.md +++ b/content/reviews/books/21st-century-robot.md @@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ title = "21st Century Robot: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories - Brian David Johnson date = 2020-07-04 [taxonomies] -tags = ["books", "reviews", "david johnson", "robotics", "it", "2 stars"] +tags = ["books", "reviews", "david johnson", "robotics", "it", "2 stars", +"2020 challenge"] +++ [GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16087659-21st-century-robot): diff --git a/content/reviews/books/introducing-elixir.md b/content/reviews/books/introducing-elixir.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..807a0ab --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/books/introducing-elixir.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ ++++ +title = "Introducing Elixir: Getting Started in Functional Programming - Simon St.Laurent, J. David Eisenberg" +date = 2020-07-24 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["books", "reviews", "simon st laurent", "j david eisenberg", "it", +"elixir", "2020 challenge", "4 stars"] ++++ + +[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18194084-introducing-elixir): +Authors Simon St. Laurent and J. David Eisenberg show you how to write simple +Elixir programs by teaching you one skill at a time. You'll learn about +pattern matching, recursion, message passing, process-oriented programming, +and establishing pathways for data rather than telling it where to go. By the +end of your journey, you'll understand why Elixir is ideal for concurrency and +resilience. + + + +{{ stars(stars=4) }} + +In a way, this is an "Introducing" book, so one shouldn't expect some deep +knowledge about the language after reading it. But also, sometimes it feels a +bit too "shallow" to gather some proper understanding of the language. + +One thing that kept bugging me was the fact that code kept changing: Not in +the "going forward" kind of change, which is good, explain the basic, then +start adding more complex/shorter solutions, but "let me bend this to another +direction and completely ignore that direction later". + +But to get a "feeling" of the language, it is a good book.