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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785881749
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Learning Elixir
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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

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This chapter was also full of material, so let's take a quick moment to recap some of the material we covered.

We discussed how modules are defined, their purpose, and a little about their representation.

We went over functions, more about them as types, more explicitly into how they are defined, and the difference between anonymous (unnamed) functions versus named functions.

Along the lines of functions, we discussed pattern matching more and how it can be used to solve problems.

Using patterns, we also discussed guard statements and what functions or checks are available to us when using guards.

We also introduced Elixir's build tool, mix, and how we can use it to create projects, and we started our first few projects.

Along with projects and mix, we introduced a few cool features with respect to testing available to us via mix and Elixir.

So far, we introduced the functional building blocks required to create programs and applications in Elixir. Next, we will want to see how we can improve...

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