Great programmers arent borntheyre made. The industry is moving from objectoriented languages to functional languages and you need to commit to radical improvement. New programming languages arm you with the tools and idioms you need to refine your craft. While other language primers take you through basic installation and Hello World we aim higher. Each language in Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks will take you on a stepbystep journey through the most important paradigms of our time. Youll learn seven exciting languages Lua Factor Elixir Elm Julia MiniKanren and Idris. Learn from the awardwinning programming series that inspired the Elixir language. Hear how other programmers across broadly different communities solve problems important enough to compel language development. Expand your perspective and learn to solve multicore and distribution problems. In each language youll solve a nontrivial problem using the techniques that make that language special. Write a fully functional game in Elm without a single callback that compiles to JavaScript so you can deploy it in any browser. Write a logic program in Clojure using a programming model MiniKanren that is as powerful as Prolog but much better at interacting with the outside world. Build a distributed program in Elixir with Lispstyle macros rich Rubylike syntax and the richness of the Erlang virtual machine. Build your own object layer in Lua a statistical program in Julia a proof in code with Idris and a quiz game in Factor. When youre done youll have written programs in five different programming paradigms that were written on three different continents. Youll have explored four languages on the leading edge invented in the past five years and three more radically different languages each with something significant to teach you.