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

They are data entities that can be used to express the application domain.

The `define struct` directive is used to create a struct.

They should be under your application domain namespace.

Which statement about structs is **incorrect**?

Which statement about structs is incorrect?

They are created using polymorphic functions.

They create a single interface that various data types can implement.

They allow you to implement polymorphism.

The `defprotocol` directive is used to define a protocol.

Which statement about Elixir's protocols is **incorrect**?

Which statement about Elixir’s protocols is incorrect?

They are contracts between modules and the client code. 

They provide separate interfaces for a client across multiple modules.

They allow clients to use multiple modules in the same way.

They allow us to have a central point of execution and handling for functions that respect the same behavior.


Which statement about Elixir's behaviors is **incorrect**?

Which statement about Elixir’s behaviors 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