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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", "2020 challenge", "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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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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