Mastering the Art of Programming in Elixir

Beginner

144 Lessons

72h 10min

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This course includes

134 Playgrounds

28 Quizzes

This course includes

134 Playgrounds

28 Quizzes

Course Overview

Elixir is a pragmatic approach to functional programming with an immutable state. It is built above Erlang so it has access to all Erlang packages, modules, and tools. In this course, you’ll learn everything you need to know to start working with Elixir, including processing the collections, using multiple tools, and OTP servers. Programmers learn by writing code, and that’s exactly how this course will work. You'll practice a lot of coding examples that will help you to have a strong grip on Elixir.

What You'll Learn

Understand the basic concepts of programming in Elixir.

Learn about OTP servers and applications.

Get hands-on experience with multiple processes.

Learn how to use protocols in polymorphic functions.

What You'll Learn

Understand the basic concepts of programming in Elixir.

Course Content

Getting Started

Why You Should Take This Course

Transforming the Data

Running Elixir

Quiz Yourself: Introduction to Elixir

Pattern Matching

Assignments with the Match Operator

Lists

Quiz Yourself: Pattern Matching

Immutability

Immutable Data

Performance Implications of Immutability

Quiz Yourself: Immutability

Elixir Basics

Quiz Yourself: Elixir Basics

Anonymous Functions

Simple Functions

Returning a Function

Passing Functions as Arguments

Exercise: Join Two Strings

Solution Review: Join Two Strings

Modules and Named Functions

7 Lessons

Lists and Recursion

5 Lessons

Maps, Keyword Lists, Sets, and Structs

7 Lessons

Processing Collections: Enum and Stream

6 Lessons

10.

Strings and Binaries

6 Lessons

11.

Control Flow

5 Lessons

12.

Organizing a Project

13 Lessons

13.

Tooling

6 Lessons

14.

Working with Multiple Processes

7 Lessons

15.

Nodes—The Key to Distributing Services

4 Lessons

16.

OTP: Servers

7 Lessons

17.

OTP: Supervisors

4 Lessons

18.

A More Complex Example

4 Lessons

19.

OTP: Applications

4 Lessons

20.

Tasks and Agents

5 Lessons

21.

Macros and Code Evaluation

9 Lessons

22.

Linking Modules: Behaviours and use

3 Lessons

23.

Protocols—Polymorphic Functions

9 Lessons

24.

More Cool Stuff

3 Lessons

25.

Appendix

10 Lessons

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