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title: "Best sources to learn erlang for a beginner"  
description: "Best sources to learn erlang for a beginner"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-06-24  
updated: 2015-06-24  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/23310/best-sources-to-learn-erlang-for-a-beginner  
category: "erlang"  
tags: ["functional programming", "concurrent programming", "erlang"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Best sources to learn erlang for a beginner

I am a [beginner](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/23159/need-beginner-project-ideas) in [functional programming](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/23327/why-hasn-t-functional-programming-taken-over-yet). What **[tools](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13129/great-tools-for-continuing-your-education-past-college), [books](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12965/7-books-students-should-read-in-2018), [articles](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12872/how-to-write-articles-of-50-and-more-a-day-quick-and-easy), and other [resources](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/293/renovation-causes-wastage-of-resources)** should I refer to help me learn Erlang?

## Replies

### Reply by Anonymous User

Joe Armstrong's Book Software for a Concurrent World (thoroughly recommended)\
O'Reilly's Erlang Programming \
Thinking in Erlang\
Functions + Messages + Concurrency = Erlang\
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My personal favorite :

For beginners, the "Learn you some Erlang" guide is supremely awesome.

| \ | I found the best thing to do to learn erlang was reading joe's thesis http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf |
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