{"id":6894,"date":"2017-10-31T20:35:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T22:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2017-11-01T08:43:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:43:14","slug":"thinking-functionally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/2017\/10\/thinking-functionally\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Functionally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The creation of the Elixir language happened inside Plataformatec&#8217;s walls. Since its inception, our team is always figuring out new ways\u00a0to contribute to the ecosystem. That&#8217;s how the idea of writing a new book came out.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of months ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/2017\/08\/book-release-learn-functional-programming-with-elixir\/\">our team\u00a0member Ulisses Almeida\u00a0blogged about the\u00a0release of his\u00a0book,\u00a0<strong>Learn Functional Programming with Elixir<\/strong><\/a>. It&#8217;s still in beta and you can buy it on <a href=\"https:\/\/pragprog.com\/book\/cdc-elixir\/learn-functional-programming-with-elixir\">The Pragmatic Bookshelf website<\/a>. To celebrate this occasion, we have something special for you.<\/p>\n<p>We have reached out to Ulisses and PragProg and they allowed us\u00a0<a style=\"color: #cc51de; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.plataformatec.com.br\/chapter-thinking-functionally-of-learn-functional-programming-with-elixir?utm_source=our-blog&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=chap-thinking-functionally&amp;utm_content=link\">to give away the first chapter of the book: <strong>Thinking Functionally<\/strong><\/a>. \\o\/<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s there for you<\/h2>\n<p>This chapter focuses on functional programming concepts. You&#8217;ll understand the mindset required to program functionally with Elixir, and you&#8217;ll learn these three core principles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Immutable Data<\/li>\n<li>Functions<\/li>\n<li>Declarative code<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Above all,\u00a0this book is for who wants to learn Elixir and functional programming from the very beginning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: none; margin-left: 20px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/book-learn-functional-programming-with-elixir.png\" alt=\"Learn Functional Programming with Elixir\" width=\"400\" height=\"327\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you know\u00a0absolutely nothing or a little bit of Elixir (the same for functional programming), this book is definitely\u00a0for you; or if you gave up learning Elixir because it&#8217;s different from the programming language you use at work like ASP, PHP, Java and so on, this book is perfect for you, too.<\/p>\n<p>After reading it, you&#8217;ll be able to think functionally.<\/p>\n<p>Click the button below to get the first chapter of the book <strong>Learn Functional Programming with Elixir<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"background-color: #67af5b; border-radius: 3px; font-family: sans-serif; display: inline-block; padding: 5px 20px; margin-bottom: 50px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: auto; color: #fff;\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.plataformatec.com.br\/chapter-thinking-functionally-of-learn-functional-programming-with-elixir?utm_source=our-blog&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=chap-thinking-functionally&amp;utm_content=button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download <strong>Thinking Functionally<\/strong> for free<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creation of the Elixir language happened inside Plataformatec&#8217;s walls. Since its inception, our team is always figuring out new ways\u00a0to contribute to the ecosystem. That&#8217;s how the idea of writing a new book came out. A couple of months ago, our team\u00a0member Ulisses Almeida\u00a0blogged about the\u00a0release of his\u00a0book,\u00a0Learn Functional Programming with Elixir. It&#8217;s still &#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/2017\/10\/thinking-functionally\/\">\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[274,143,279,278],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7201,"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions\/7201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}