Hi,
I just checked my entries and I won both the “Build it with Nitrogen” and any Manning E-Book giveaway. The Nitrogen one is easy, no difficult decisions there. The Manning Book is a bit difficult, as I am looking for a good book to supplement my Nitrogen E-Book as well as learn Erlang proper. Can anyone suggest an E-Book from Manning that will help and supplement my Nitrogen/Erlang experience?
Thanks in advance.
Paging @gumm @LloydPrentice
“Erlang and OTP in Action” is getting a little old now (2010 I think), but I thought it quite a good book when I first got into Erlang. The Elixir flavoured version, Elixir in Action, is more up to date (2019) if you are curious.
I read Elixir is a completely different language to Erlang, so it wouldn’t apply as much to Erlang. The only thing Elixir has to Erlang is it’s a thin layer on top of Erlang that produces Erlang then beam code. I tried Elixir once but, got frustrated and gave up. I think Erlang and Nitrogen is the way to go.
In that case Erlang & OTP in Action - as that’s the only Erlang specific book they have right now…
Ok I’ll wait a few hours and see if anyone else has any more input. If not then I guess that will be my choice for the prize for the giveaway. I will message you when I am ready.
For me, the book that got me into Erlang in the first place was 1st edition of Joe Armstrong’s book (and the 2nd edition has been out for a few years now).
That was the book that clicked for me, and shortly thereafter, I was building things with Nitrogen.
And, of course, for free resources, https://learnyousomeerlang.com is an amazing resource.
I agree with you that is the best book to Erlang from all others because this is begining, intermediate and advanced features from the language and is really complete.
Good indication!
Best,