Chapter 2. Elixir Basics – Foundational Steps toward Functional Programming

In the previous chapter, we talked about functional programming, installed Elixir, and tried a few elementary examples.

In this chapter, we are going to go into depth on the syntax and basic built-in types and operators of Elixir (and implicitly, Erlang). We are going to explore some more structural elements of Elixir code and begin our discussion of pattern matching.