Elixir Basics Workshop

From the Boulder Elixir Meetup on 2015-01-28.

Welcome to the Elixir Basics Workshop!

Purpose

The goals of this workshop are to:

• Learn basic syntax & how to work with Elixir
• Be able to solve simple problems
• Be exposed to Elixir's core features
• Be inspired to go home and learn more

You will learn about:

• iex, Elixir's interactive shell
• Variables & pattern matching
• Control flow: if & case
• Functions named & anonymous
• Lists & Maps
• The amazing pipe character
• Organizing code into modules & files
• Recursion

Up & Running

Prerequisites

In order to get the most out of this workshop, you will need:

• Some coding experience with another language
• A laptop set up with a code editor
• Install Elixir with Homebrew (on Mac) $ brew install elixir
• Other platforms, follow these instructions: http://elixir-lang.org/install.html
• Syntax highlighting for elixir: vim, sublime, etc.

Useful links:

• Elixir Website: http://elixir-lang.org/
• Elixir Docs: http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/elixir/Kernel.html

Getting Started

You should start by cloning this repository to your local machine.

$ git clone git@github.com:boulder-elixir/elixir-basics-workshop.git

Once you have it cloned, open the index.html file to view the presentation. At the exercise prompts, complete them in either iex or in the file lib/workshop.ex as requested.

Tests are provided for the exercises as well as some of the examples. Uncomment them if necessary and run all tests with $ mix test in the root folder.

Further Reading

• Elixir Getting Started Guide
• Elixir School
• Pattern Matching In Elixir
• Programming Elixir (paid)