It seems like functional programming is getting a lot of attention these days, and I'm not immune to the hype train. I've been getting started with Elm, and have started learning a little bit of Haskell and Elixir, but I would love to have a few concrete, easy for beginners, projects to start getting familiar with this new paradigm.
In Elm I already have a few projects I had worked on while learning Javascript so I'll try implementing those in Elm as well. Things such as tic-tac-toe, flip card games, and so on.
However, since I tend to be more front-end focused, it is always a little hard for me to think of good back-end projects, so for you folks that have been focusing on back-end, especially with a functional language, what would be good projects in your opinion?
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hi @Aimeri I was in the same boat as you and I would suggest you start with Composing Software by Eric Elliott. Feel free to follow me as well, I am also sharing articles/tutorials on Functional Programing with JavaScript.. Cheers 🥂
That book looks really good! Thank you for the suggestion.
hello , are you talking about a book? I am also looking to apply I have learned from Haskell, excuse me My pseudo-English
In the backend I'd recommend that you checkout Elixir/Phoenix projects, there're tons of them. I got started by reading Programming Phoenix which is an amazing read, full of great examples. I also found some amazing projects along the way: Changelog.com, Accent, even Hex!
Thank you for the suggestions! What about those projects in particular make them good for beginners?
Personally I always found a lot of resources about functional programming lacking real life examples. It's not going to be easy to open a big project like Hex or Changelog and actually understand it, but it'll help you see the bigger picture of how to compose things functionally and I think that's a very good thing to have once you're past the basic things and want to build something real!