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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):

Kenny Ballou

Kenneth Ballou

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Learning Elixir

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

Summary

We covered a lot in this chapter, so let's take a quick moment to recap what we went over.

Everything in Elixir is a statement and this has a cool result on composability in the functional world. So, it's easier to compose expressions than statements.

We discussed the basic types of Elixir: numbers (integers, floats), atoms, booleans, Strings, lists, tuples, binaries, functions, and PIDs.

Furthermore, we spent some time covering immutability again and started our exploration of pattern matching.

Finally, we finished up with some discussion on structure, file formats, and scripts.

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Authors (2)

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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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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