List of college courses and universities that use BEAM languages

[pdgonzalez872]

chatted with @adolfont and we should make this a community effort:

We should address the community with:

• Twitter
• ElixirForum
• Elixir Slack

[adolfont]

I started here on Twitter https://twitter.com/adolfont/status/1182346637613645825

Then you @pdgonzalez872 asked on Elixir Forum here https://elixirforum.com/t/universities-teaching-beam-related-languages/26267

The spreadheet is here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18zSqsCDOmIc4c5J1VsbLMiUPdRSZnPpS8nvOTu7osOY/edit#gid=0

My initial compilation is here https://github.com/adolfont/introducao-a-programacao-funcional/blob/master/other_courses/elixir_erlang_beam.md

[adolfont]

So my question is: which information do we need from each course? Is the information below enough? Too much?

University name: Federal University of Technology

Course name: Introduction to Functional Programming

Language(s): Elixir

Instructor: Adolfo Neto https://twitter.com/adolfont

Hours: 45

Link: https://github.com/adolfont/introducao-a-programacao-funcional

Offered in: 2019

Campus: Curitiba

[pdgonzalez872]

@adolfont great effort.

I'm really worried with how fast this dataset can get stale though. I think there is a reason lists like these don't really exist. I see the need, I think there is value in trying to keep something like this, but also recognize it is a very difficult task.

Maybe we can automate the validation here. Maybe we need a "general contact email", where (in the example above) it would not be the instructor's email (Adolfo) but instead the department email, where if Adolfo were to leave the university, or not offer the course anymore, we could contact the university with an email (can generate it with code) and validate that our data is still correct.