A Collection of Exercises for Learning Erlang (Or Any Other Language)

Personally, I've always liked creating a simple web server as a nice step in learning a language/stdlib. Some concurrency, some I/O, some string parsing, etc. Obviously it's not the first thing one does, but I find it a nice package to put together that actually achieves something real.

The really tough part of picking a new language is learning the idioms.

If I handed you a book describing the French grammar and an English to French dictionary and told you to write some short stories, you might be able to put together something parseable by a Frenchman but you wouldn't be writing French.

I don't pretend to have a good answer except reading and modifying other people's code seems to help.

This could be a long list: SPOJ, topCoder, ICFP, google and Facebook etc comps,

Language specific: 4clojure.org, blow your mind etc

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind

This is my favorite: http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2006/06/16/15-exercises-to-...