Gain insights into Elixir's functional programming fundamentals, explore expressions, modules, conditional statements, recursion, and delve into advanced topics like higher-order functions and application design. Discover Elixir's vibrant community and tooling.

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Elixir is a functional programming language that runs in the Erlang VM, a powerful environment to run distributed systems. This course uses Elixir because of its fun syntax, vibrant community, and production-ready tooling. Elixir syntax lets you focus on what’s important while learning functional programming.

Starting from scratch, you will learn the fundamentals of Elixir including expressions, modules, conditional statements, and recursion. Towards the end of the course, you will focus on more advanced material like higher-order functions, how to handle impure functions, and lastly how to design an application using Elixir and functional programming principles.

By the end, you will be able to write basic Elixir programs that follow the functional programming paradigm.

Learn Functional Programming with Elixir

Higher-order functions can have variables in their arguments.

Higher-order functions can return functions.

Higher-order functions can have functions in their arguments.

Higher-order functions cannot return functions.

Which statement about higher-order functions is incorrect?

Which statement about higher-order functions is incorrect?

They provide a way to build functions with simple interfaces

They don't need to be defined in modules.

Which is **not** a benefit of using higher-order functions?

Which is not a benefit of using higher-order functions?

The data flow in streams may not have an end.

The data flow in streams always has an end.

Which statement about *streams* is incorrect?

Which statement about streams is incorrect?

The pipe operator can be combined with streams.

Pipelining can be done using the lazy strategy.

Pipelining can be done using the eager strategy only.

With the eager pipelining strategy, each computation will process all the items before sending them to the next computation.

Which statement about pipelining is **incorrect**?

Which statement about pipelining is incorrect?

Getting Started

Introduction to Functional Programming

Working with Variables and Functions

Using Pattern Matching to Control Program Flow

Diving into Recursion

Using Higher-Order Functions

Designing Your Elixir Applications

Handling Impure Functions

Conclusion

Appendices

Quiz