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Learning Elixir

You're reading from Learning Elixir Unveil many hidden gems of programming functionally by taking the foundational steps with Elixir

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785881749

Length 286 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Elixir

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Kenneth Ballou

Kenny Ballou

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Elixir – Thinking Functionally FREE CHAPTER

2. Elixir Basics – Foundational Steps toward Functional Programming

3. Modules and Functions – Creating Functional Building Blocks

4. Collections and Stream Processing

5. Control Flow – Occasionally You Need to Branch

6. Concurrent Programming – Using Processes to Conquer Concurrency

7. OTP – A Poor Name for a Rich Framework

8. Distributed Elixir – Taking Concurrency to the Next Node

9. Metaprogramming – Doing More with Less

Index

Exercises

Read:

The Elixir GETTING STARTED page (http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html)

Do:

Try out the interactive interpreter (IEx).
Try some more basic arithmetic.
Try out the help command some more.
Try entering 'Hello, World!' in IEx. What may be the difference between single quotes and double quotes? (No fret, we will cover this in the next chapter!)

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Authors (2)

Kenneth Ballou

Kenneth Ballou

Kenny Ballou is a life-long learner, developer, mathematician, and overall thinker. He enjoys solving problems, learning about technologies, and discussing new and different ideas. He graduated from the Boise State University, majoring in applied mathematics, and minoring in computer science. He has been programming professionally for nearly a decade, and is currently working as a software developer for an analytics company in the Boise, Idaho area. Apart from developing professionally, he is active in the open source community, contributing where he can. When he is not developing, he enjoys reading, learning, and shredding the local mountains. You can read more from him on his blog at https://kennyballou.com, check out his code on GitHub at https://github.com/kennyballou/, and follow him on Twitter at @kennyballou.

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Kenny Ballou

Kenny Ballou

Kenny Ballou is a life-long learner, developer, mathematician, and overall thinker. He enjoys solving problems, learning about technologies, and discussing new and different ideas. He graduated from the Boise State University, majoring in applied mathematics, and minoring in computer science. He has been programming professionally for nearly a decade, and is currently working as a software developer for an analytics company in the Boise, Idaho area. Apart from developing professionally, he is active in the open source community, contributing where he can. When he is not developing, he enjoys reading, learning, and shredding the local mountains. You can read more from him on his blog at https://kennyballou.com, check out his code on GitHub at https://github.com/kennyballou/, and follow him on Twitter at @kennyballou.

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