ProgrammingElixirBook

Chapter 8 is a dense chapter on an extremely useful set of features. Will become a reference chapter when starting to build Elixir projects as I’m very used to using maps, structs, etc.

Chapter 9 is a quick aside on types.

Neither chapter has exercises.

Making the best of recursion.

It takes awhile to get used to not seeing function return statements. Drives home the point that everything is an evaluation.

Unlike Python lambda functions, Elixir anonymous functions can be arbitrarily complex (though I guess there is a limit to what is practicable from a maintainability point of view).

I’m used to skimming technical books. The decision to make notes and document my learning experience is causing me to slow down and spend more time with what I’m reading.

One minute into the Programming Elixir book’s foreward and the focus is unlike any other programming book I’ve read.