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Can anyone recommend a tutorial for getting started in erlang? I'm a C/python programmer.

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Are you comfortable with functional programming paradigm? as well as concurrent processing + message passing – Darknight Dec 20 '10 at 11:24
I think so. I'm fairly adapt at creating functions that only deal with immutable variables and I quite like creating higher-order functions in python, but I've never learnt a functional language before. – dan_waterworth Dec 20 '10 at 11:27

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Learn You Some Erlang looks good to me, although it's still only on my "must read" list, not on my "have already read" list, so I can't give you any guarantees.

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I am glad to see that this style of writing is growing. Why's was good, but maybe a bit too over the top. LearnYouAHaskell was excellent as well. – Jeremy Heiler Jan 27 '11 at 19:08
+1 - I have used this and loved it (though I have stalled on my Erlang progress) – Jetti Jan 27 '11 at 19:29
@Jeremy: It seems that many people do like that style of writing. I don't. – Nemanja Trifunovic Mar 18 '11 at 2:17
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The book "Programming Erlang" written by Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of the language, is a great reference/tutorial for the language. It's easy going and assumes a person is coming from a procedural background and gently eases into various aspects of the functional/concurrent paradigm.

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You could start with Erlang's "Getting Started" PDF Click Here.

You could also try an online Erlang here:

Online Erlang

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All three of the previous answers have good references. Another one is Erlang Programming by Cesarini,Thompson.

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LYSE (Learn You Some Erlang) is good and it just keeps growing. – rvirding Jan 27 '11 at 19:03
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Go for Learn You some Erlang and Erlang Programming, as suggested in the other answers.

Once you're done, jump to Erlang and OTP in Action to learn about OTP.

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