Getting started with Erlang is a hands-on tutorial to get you started
with this.
By the time the tutorial is over your brain should be spinning with
new ideas, you'll have written several Erlang programs and your
fingers will itch to write more Erlang programs.
You'll be expected to bring a Laptop with a working version of Erlang installed. Prior to the course you should have installed Erlang and made sure you can start an Erlang shell (we're not going to waste any time with the mechanics of Erlang installation - so when the course starts we'll jump in at the deep end and start hacking).
Don't worry - before the course we'll send out detailed instructions on how to install Erlang - and you can mail Joe if anything goes wrong. This is not an overview course for managers, it's a hands-on hacking course for programmers. We'll assume no previous knowledge of functional or concurrent programming but start off at a leisurely tempo banging the fundamental stuff into your brains.  Then we'll speed up (sadistic grin). You'll learn how to write concurrent, fault-tolerant, distributed soft real-time programs...