Elixir for Beginners

Elixir for Beginners, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 3.95, with 28 lectures, based on 722 reviews, and has 4323 subscribers.

You will learn about Understand how to read and write Elixir code Understand the key tenets of functional programming, immutable data, pattern matching and recursion Create your own Elixir programs Use the appropriate tools when building Elixir programs Think confidently in Elixir, and have detailed knowledge of the most important language primitives This course is ideal for individuals who are This course focuses on beginners in Elixir who want to get knowledge of the language and understand how to program in a functional way or The course covers the main language concepts, and how to write code in Elixir, and use some of it's tools e.g. Mix or Elixir is an excellent language for building, highly scalable, fault-tolerant and concurrent software systems or If you want to build powerful server backends, APIs for your mobile Apps etc, or Internet of Things (IoT) clients and servers, you should consider using Elixir or Elixir can be embeded on the RaspberryPi and Beagle Bone, and it's concurrency and event handling make it an excellent choice for robotics or This course focuses on programmers with Object Orientated (OO) experience, wishing to learn a functional language or Students should have some programming skills, in languages like: Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, etc. or If you have experience in a functional language and wish to learn the Elixir language or This course does NOT go into OTP (Open Telephone Platform), so is not suitable for students wishing to learn OTP or The course will NOT go into any details about creating Elixir Macros and Protocols It is particularly useful for This course focuses on beginners in Elixir who want to get knowledge of the language and understand how to program in a functional way or The course covers the main language concepts, and how to write code in Elixir, and use some of it's tools e.g. Mix or Elixir is an excellent language for building, highly scalable, fault-tolerant and concurrent software systems or If you want to build powerful server backends, APIs for your mobile Apps etc, or Internet of Things (IoT) clients and servers, you should consider using Elixir or Elixir can be embeded on the RaspberryPi and Beagle Bone, and it's concurrency and event handling make it an excellent choice for robotics or This course focuses on programmers with Object Orientated (OO) experience, wishing to learn a functional language or Students should have some programming skills, in languages like: Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, etc. or If you have experience in a functional language and wish to learn the Elixir language or This course does NOT go into OTP (Open Telephone Platform), so is not suitable for students wishing to learn OTP or The course will NOT go into any details about creating Elixir Macros and Protocols.

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Title: Elixir for Beginners

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 3.95

Number of Lectures: 28

Number of Published Lectures: 28

Number of Curriculum Items: 28

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 28

Original Price: $29.99

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What You Will Learn

Understand how to read and write Elixir code
Understand the key tenets of functional programming, immutable data, pattern matching and recursion
Create your own Elixir programs
Use the appropriate tools when building Elixir programs
Think confidently in Elixir, and have detailed knowledge of the most important language primitives

Who Should Attend

This course focuses on beginners in Elixir who want to get knowledge of the language and understand how to program in a functional way
The course covers the main language concepts, and how to write code in Elixir, and use some of it's tools e.g. Mix
Elixir is an excellent language for building, highly scalable, fault-tolerant and concurrent software systems
If you want to build powerful server backends, APIs for your mobile Apps etc, or Internet of Things (IoT) clients and servers, you should consider using Elixir
Elixir can be embeded on the RaspberryPi and Beagle Bone, and it's concurrency and event handling make it an excellent choice for robotics
This course focuses on programmers with Object Orientated (OO) experience, wishing to learn a functional language
Students should have some programming skills, in languages like: Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, etc.
If you have experience in a functional language and wish to learn the Elixir language
This course does NOT go into OTP (Open Telephone Platform), so is not suitable for students wishing to learn OTP
The course will NOT go into any details about creating Elixir Macros and Protocols

Target Audiences

This course focuses on beginners in Elixir who want to get knowledge of the language and understand how to program in a functional way
The course covers the main language concepts, and how to write code in Elixir, and use some of it's tools e.g. Mix
Elixir is an excellent language for building, highly scalable, fault-tolerant and concurrent software systems
If you want to build powerful server backends, APIs for your mobile Apps etc, or Internet of Things (IoT) clients and servers, you should consider using Elixir
Elixir can be embeded on the RaspberryPi and Beagle Bone, and it's concurrency and event handling make it an excellent choice for robotics
This course focuses on programmers with Object Orientated (OO) experience, wishing to learn a functional language
Students should have some programming skills, in languages like: Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, etc.
If you have experience in a functional language and wish to learn the Elixir language
This course does NOT go into OTP (Open Telephone Platform), so is not suitable for students wishing to learn OTP
The course will NOT go into any details about creating Elixir Macros and Protocols

Do you want web sites that can easily scale to millions of users?
Or build a system to reliably handle the coming Internet of Things (IoT) future?

Perhaps you just want to learn a programming language, which will teach you the techniques for building concurrent, functional, and fault-tolerant software.

Elixir is one of the fastest growing programming languages, for all of these reasons.

Created by José Valim, one of the Ruby on Rails core team members, Elixir is built on the tried and tested Erlang Beam (Virtual Machine). With cherry picked features from other modern languages such as Clojure, Ruby and Python, etc. it’s a joy to use, and makes functional programming much more accessible.

Erlang was built from the ground up, to get distributed, and fault-tolerant computing “right”. Elixir inherits these qualities, and packages it up in a beautiful modern language, with excellent tooling and access to all the existing Erlang libraries.

If you want to understand how Whatsapp, with less than 60 engineers, can send double the text messages of all the Telecoms companies put together, then come and learn Elixir. It’ll be fun!

What can you build with Elixir:

* Websites with Phoenix
* Microservices and APIs
* IoT devices, with the Nerves project – write and manage the client and the server
* Use all the cores on your computer
* Build concurrent event driven services, ideal for Robotics, etc.

What is this course about:

This is a beginners guide to learning the Elixir programming language. You will learn how to read and write in Elixir code, understand recursion, data immutability, and pattern matching.

This course lays the foundation for learning a functional language and gives you confidence with which to build your knowledge.

This is a beginners course in learning the basics of the language thus we do NOT go into OTP, Erlang or Macros.

Build a strong foundation in Elixir and functional programming with this tutorial for beginners.

What Elixir is and what it is good for
Types, functions and tools
Functional programming, immutable data, pattern matching and recursion
Tools, tests and documenting

A Skill for the Future of Programming
A developer in the future will need to have experience building functional and concurrent software. With the rise of the Internet of Things and greater need for scalable and fault-tolerant systems, developers are going to need experience building software that can cope with these kind of challenges.

Learning the fundamentals of Elixir will give you skills for the future. It’s free and easy to learn, with excellent documentation and a thriving friendly community.

Understanding an elegant functional language such as Elixir will greatly improve your programming skills in Object Orientated languages, such as Ruby, Python, Java and C#. It will also serve as a foundation for learning other functional languages.

Elixir is the language of the future, and will equip you with the skills that our future jobs are going to require.

Content and Overview
Suitable for students with programming experience who wish to learn a functional language but don’t know where to start. You’ll learn all of the Elixir
fundamentals and establish a strong understanding of the concept behind Functional programming.

Starting from set up, this course will walk you through the main language concepts and how they work, right up to building your own Elixir programs, and using some of the main tools.

Students completing the course will have the knowledge and confidence to create functional programs written in Elixir. You will be able to read and write code, and understand when to use the correct data structures.

What am I going to get from this course?

Learn Elixir code from your own desk.
Suitable for students with programming experience wishing to learn a functional language, and ideal for users who learn faster when shown.
Visual training method, offering users increased retention and accelerated learning.
Breaks down principles into simple steps.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome to Elixir

Lecture 1: Introduction to Elixir

Lecture 2: About this course

Lecture 3: Prerequisites

Lecture 4: Elixir introduction resources

Chapter 2: Introduction to Elixir

Lecture 1: Hello World x2

Lecture 2: Introduction to Elixir files

Lecture 3: Interactive Elixir REPL (iex)

Chapter 3: Basic types

Lecture 1: Basic types: numbers

Lecture 2: Atoms, Booleans and Strings

Lecture 3: Basics of anonymous functions and tuples

Chapter 4: Basics of functional thinking

Lecture 1: Pattern matching basics

Lecture 2: Pattern matching further concepts

Lecture 3: Immutable Data

Chapter 5: Complex types

Lecture 1: Lists

Lecture 2: Keyword lists

Lecture 3: Maps

Chapter 6: Modules & Functions

Lecture 1: Modules

Lecture 2: Named function basics

Lecture 3: Function captures and references

Chapter 7: Recursion

Lecture 1: Recursion and pattern matching

Lecture 2: Tail call optimisation

Lecture 3: Reduce & Map a recursive example

Chapter 8: Processes

Lecture 1: Spawning processes, sending/receiving messages and Tasks

Lecture 2: Process ping pong example

Chapter 9: Caesar Cipher Project

Lecture 1: Mix and project dependencies

Lecture 2: Testing & writing code

Lecture 3: Make a command line executable with: escript

Lecture 4: Configuration, documentation and doctest

Instructors

Ben Emson
Developer, Software Architect and Technologist

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 10 votes
2 stars: 22 votes
3 stars: 107 votes
4 stars: 261 votes
5 stars: 322 votes

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