INTERACTIVE COURSE

Mastering the Art of Programming in Elixir

Beginner

144 Lessons

72h 10min

Certificate of Completion

134 Playgrounds

28 Quizzes

51 Illustrations

Takeaway Skills

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.

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.

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

Data Types Operators Elixir Scope The with Expression 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

Strings and Binaries

6 Lessons

Control Flow

5 Lessons

Organizing a Project

13 Lessons

Tooling

6 Lessons

Working with Multiple Processes

7 Lessons

Nodes—The Key to Distributing Services

4 Lessons

OTP: Servers

7 Lessons

OTP: Supervisors

4 Lessons

A More Complex Example

4 Lessons

OTP: Applications

4 Lessons

Tasks and Agents

5 Lessons

Macros and Code Evaluation

9 Lessons

Linking Modules: Behaviours and use

3 Lessons

Protocols—Polymorphic Functions

9 Lessons

More Cool Stuff

3 Lessons

Appendix

10 Lessons

COURSE AUTHOR

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