Coding and Learning Should Never Stop, Open Sourcing is Caring

I’ve had a productive coding weekend, and so I decided to share my experience. Now, many developers choose to treat their career as a series of 9-5 jobs, but if you’re reading this, I assume you’re like the rest of us who love continuous learning and self improvement.

Preface

About a year ago I started learning Elixir. So as part of the learning experience, I wrote two matching learning related libraries: Stemmer and Simple Bayes. It was a great, really enjoyable experience and I learnt a lot about the concepts of word stemming, naive Bayes classification and of course, functional programming.

These topics have been interesting to learn about, but until one gets to use them on a daily basis for a while, key concepts are less likely to convert from short term memory to long term memory. Given my day job is not about writing Elixir (yet), I needed to find other ways to keep my skill-level up and to continue exploring new things.