L1
Honest Take — Before You Begin
Honest reflections on the paradigm shift from OOP to FP
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This course opens at full launch. Explore the foundation courses for now!
Course · 5 lessons
~30 hr
Intermediate
Functional Programming Foundations
Rewire your brain from object-oriented to functional thinking — immutability, pure functions, pattern matching, recursion, higher-order functions, and data transformation pipelines. This is the paradigm shift that makes everything else possible.
reading · we frame, you read MIT or the canonical
taught · we author, no canonical fits
↺ spirals back to earlier lessons
L2
Read: Becoming Functional
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
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Elixir School: Basics
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L3
Read: Learn Functional Programming with Elixir
Approach: READ cover-to-cover, DO exercises
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Elixir School: Basics
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L4
Module Checklist
Work through each item before the checkpoint.
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L5
Checkpoint: Solve 10 Exercism Elixir exercises using only recursion, ...
Solve 10 Exercism Elixir exercises using only recursion, pattern matching, and the pipe operator -- no Enum.each with side effects, no mutable variables, no imperative loops. Then…
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5 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.