DockYard Academy

The DockYard Academy curriculum is an open source Elixir curriculum built with Livebook. We're proud to offer our open-source curriculum free of charge for anyone to learn from at their own pace.

We also offer a paid course where you can learn from an instructor alongside a cohort of your peers. Applications will be accepted soon.

Email the instructor Brooklin at brooklin.myers@dockyard.com or direct message @BrooklinJMyers on Twitter if you would like more information.

Prerequisites

• Install Elixir
• Install Livebook
• Install Postgres (optional to get started)
• Install Phoenix (optional to get started)
• Setup WSL with Visual Studio Code (Windows Users Only)
• Optionally Install asdf to manage Elixir and Erlang versions.

While we strongly recommend the Visual Studio Code editor for its LiveShare capability, you may use any code editor you prefer.

This course is intended to be approachable to students with no computer science background.

Getting Started

Download and extract the Latest Release source code zip file.

Open the extracted curriculum folder in Livebook and open the start.livemd file to see all project lessons and exercises.

Optionally Create a GitHub Repository and follow the instructions on GitHub to manage your downloaded curriculum with Git and GitHub.

See the Troubleshooting Guide if you encounter issues setting up the curriculum.

Course Outcome

Our program is designed to produce highly qualified Elixir developers. Upon completion, students will possess a thorough understanding of Elixir fundamentals, project development using Elixir and Phoenix, LiveView, and OTP. They will have the expertise and problem-solving skills necessary to tackle complex coding challenges and continue to grow and excel in their careers. Graduates will be well-equipped to deliver idiomatic and well-tested features to production codebases.

Curriculum Outline

See start.livemd for a full breakdown of our lessons and exercises.

Elixir Fundamentals

• Prerequisites
• Course Tools
• Basics
• Data Structures And Intro To Pattern Matching
• Control Flow And Abstraction
• Modules And Structs
• Enumeration
• Built-in Modules
• Comprehensions And Non-Enumerable Data Types
• Reduce
• Dates And Time
• String Manipulation
• Recursion

Mix Projects

• Elixir Build Tooling
• Testing With ExUnit
• Documentation And Static Analysis
• Executables

Advanced Syntax

• Advanced Pattern Matching
• Guarding
• Protocols
• Persistence Using The File System

OTP

• Processes
• GenServers
• Testing GenServers
• Supervisor Basics And Fault Tolerance
• Concurrency With Tasks

Phoenix

• HTML And CSS
• APIs
• Relational Databases
• Phoenix
• Group Project Blog
• Phoenix And Ecto
• Testing Phoenix
• Phoenix Forms And Components
• Phoenix And Ecto One-to-Many Associations
• Phoenix Authentication
• Phoenix And Ecto Many-to-Many Relationships
• Phoenix And Ecto One-to-One Relationships
• Tailwind
• Deployment
• Custom Feature
• Group Project Presentation

Capstone Project Preparation

• Capstone Project

LiveView

• LiveView
• LiveView And Ecto
• LiveView Authentication
• LiveView Image Uploads
• PubSub
• LiveView JS Interoperability And Pagination
• Scheduling And Emailing With Swoosh And Oban

Bonus Topics

• Performance Optimization
• Benchmarking And Performance
• Ecto Changesets
• State Management With Agents And ETS
• Metaprogramming
• Queues
• Worker Pools
• Rubix Cube Project