[erlang-questions] Beginners tutorials

[Youngkin, Rich]

Ditto, I've been trying to put something along these lines together - now I
don't have to.  Thanks!

P.S. this is a great thread, lot's of new information here for a newbie
like me.  Thanks to Joe Armstrong for starting it!


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Mark Nijhof <
mark.nijhof@REDACTED> wrote:

> That is awesome!
> On Jun 13, 2014 5:58 PM, "Gordon Guthrie" <gordon@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> I have taken a bit more radical approach.
>>
>> People traditionally comparing Erlang to other languages - and Erlang
>> loses because of its weak spot - it has a prolog syntax in a world
>> dominated by c-like syntaxes.
>>
>> I decided to compare Erlang/OTP with other ways of building
>> multi-machine clusters.
>>
>> Here's my hell world attempt:
>> http://erlangotp.com
>>
>> Thoughts comments, welcome
>>
>> Gordon
>>
>> On 12/06/2014, Mark Allen <mallen@REDACTED> wrote:
>> > I started http://introducingerlang.com right after EF2014 in San
>> Francisco.
>> > It's intended to be a really short and simple introduction to Erlang for
>> > people who know how to program in other languages but don't know
>> Erlang. I
>> > have a mostly documented OTP application (uses Gordon Guthrie's
>> "literate
>> > Erlang" markup) with a supervisor, gen_server and application modules
>> here:
>> >
>> > https://github.com/introducingerlang/todolist/tree/master/src_md
>> >
>> > I would welcome any help finishing the documentation of the modules in
>> that
>> > repo or extending/correcting/fixing the web content that's already
>> there. I
>> > can add you directly to the github organization.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>> > From: Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED<mailto:erlang@REDACTED>>
>> > Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014 9:54 AM
>> > To: Erlang
>> > <erlang-questions@REDACTED<mailto:erlang-questions@REDACTED>>
>> > Subject: [erlang-questions] Beginners tutorials
>> >
>> > Re: Garrett's great talk at EUC2014
>> >
>> > The point has been made many times before that
>> > "There are no easy Erlang getting started guides"
>> >
>> > So I thought I'd take a look at Node.js.
>> >
>> > The node js home page (node.js) starts with a simple example
>> >
>> >
>> > <quote>
>> > var http = require('http');
>> > http.createServer(function (req, res) {
>> >   res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
>> >   res.end('Hello World\n');
>> > }).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');
>> > console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');
>> >
>> > To run the server, put the code into a file example.js and execute it
>> with
>> > the node program from the command line:
>> >
>> > % node example.js
>> > Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/
>> > </endquote>
>> >
>> > It's pretty easy to knock up an almost identical example in Erlang -
>> using
>> > any of the well-known web
>> > servers in the background, unfortunately this has not been done, or if
>> it
>> > has been done
>> > it's not easy to find the examples (or if there are examples I can't
>> find
>> > them)
>> >
>> > I was vaguely thinking of making some examples that are more-or-less
>> > isomorphic to the
>> > node.js examples and then applying small transformation steps to turn
>> then
>> > from idiomatic node.js code to idiomatic Erlang code.
>> >
>> > Although I could find a simple hello world example in node.js I could
>> not
>> > find a tutorial that
>> > started with a simple example and then built on it in very small steps
>> > adding routing, authentication,
>> > database access and so on.
>> >
>> > Does anybody know of some examples of node.js that could be used for
>> this.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > /Joe
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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