Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
by Bruce Tate · first published 2015
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Learn from the award-winning programming series that inspired the Elixir language. Hear how other programmers across broadly different communities solve problems important enough to compel language development. Expand your perspective, and learn to solve multicore and distribution problems. In each language, you'll solve a non-trivial problem, using the techniques that make that language special. Write a fully functional game in Elm, without a single callback, that compiles to JavaScript so you can deploy it in any browser. Write a logic program in Clojure using a programming model, MiniKanren
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…have some guidance diving into other languages I can recommend these two books: Bruce Tate: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Languages-Weeks-Programming-Pro... Bruce Tate: Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks https://www.amazon.com/Seven-More-Languages-Weeks-Shaping/dp... You can work through them in <4 months, and then we can talk again whether you found it useful (I did).
on “Trying new programming languages helped me grow as a software engineer” ↗…really motivated me to learn how programming languages work. Here are a few other books I found to be enjoyable and well-written: Programming Erlang by Joe Armstrong Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas Seven (more) Languages In Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate Think Bayes, Think OS, How To Think Like A Functional Programmer (Think OCaml) and The Little Book of Semaphores by Allen B. Downey
on “Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?” ↗I really enjoyed the book, Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks and regularly recommend that to people looking to expand their arsenal.
on “Try these 4 languages from 4 corners of Programming” ↗Can also recommend the followup "Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks" [1] which covers: Lua, Factor, Elixir, Elm, Julia, MiniKanren, and Idris [1] https://pragprog.com/titles/7lang/seven-more-languages-in-se...
on “Weird Languages” ↗…Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix 2018 - $24.95 - Learn Functional Programming with Elixir 2018 - $24.95 - Adopting Elixir 2015 - $11.00 - Metaprogramming Elixir 2014 - $27.95 - Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
on “Joy of Elixir (2020)” ↗