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0 pointscuddlecake5y ago0 comments

What's a good side project, if one is not really interested in the problem space of the side project?

I.e. I mostly just program for money, so how do I motivate myself to do a side project I'm not interested in, just to learn the language?

I wonder if I could ask my employer for two weeks of time to "rewrite" parts of our backend in Elixir, just so I could scratch that itch, without any of the consequences of it actually reaching production.

Like a programming language sabbatical

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mrjoelkemp5y ago

I find building a simple game (like tictactoe) in Phoenix Liveview to be a good learning project. You can layer on multiplayer using Phoenix pubsub once you have a working one player version. You can also then layer on structs, typespecs, or any other idiomatic features of the language that you need practice in.

datashaman5y ago

Exercism is great for learning a language. https://exercism.io/tracks/elixir

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