Name: Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
ISBN: 9781941222157

Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks

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, that is as powerful as Prolog but much better at interacting with the outside world. Build a distributed program in Elixir with Lisp-style macros, rich Ruby-like syntax, and the richness of the Erlang virtual machine. Build your own object layer in Lua, a statistical program in Julia, a proof in code with Idris, and a quiz game in Factor. When you're done, you'll have written programs in five different programming paradigms that were written on three different continents. You'll have explored four languages on the leading edge, invented in the past five years, and three more radically different languages, each with something significant to teach you. With each passing day, it is becoming more likely that new programmers will use functional programming, an entirely new programming paradigm. Each of the new languages has something unique to teach the next generation of programmers. 1.

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jll29Oct 2022

I value learning new languages, especially as I have yet to find a very good one. Some are pure and beautiful like Scheme, but if you asked me what single language I would take to a lonely island with me where I was stranded, it would still have to be C.

To those here who would like to 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).

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yellow_postitAug 2021

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...

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idsoutJun 2020

I really enjoyed the book, Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks and regularly recommend that to people looking to expand their arsenal.

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rubiquityJun 2015

Eloquent Ruby is one of my favorite books, too. That book 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

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dharamgollapudiSep 2022

While most of these resources could be still valuable, to avoid buyer's remorse, pay attention to the publishing dates, as some of them are very dated:

2022 - $18.95 - Build a Weather Station with Elixir and Nerves

2022 - $18.95 - Build a Binary Clock with Elixir and Nerves

2022 - $15.00 - Programmer Passport: OTP

2022 - $15.00 - Programmer Passport: Elixir

2021 - $27.95 - Testing Elixir

2021 - $26.95 - Concurrent Data Processing in Elixir

2021 - $22.95 - Genetic Algorithms in Elixir

2020 - $27.95 - Real-Time Phoenix

2019 - $26.95 - Programming Ecto

2019 - $28.95 - Programming Phoenix 1.4 (Current version is 1.6)

2019 - $26.95 - Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir

2019 - $24.95 - Designing Elixir Systems with OTP