Elixir School

Lessons in the Fundamentals of Elixir, inspired by Twitter's Scala School.

Your feedback and participation is encouraged, see Contributing for more details.

About Elixir

"Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications." — elixir-lang.org

Elixir leverages the battle tested ErlangVM to build distributed and fault-tolerant systems with low-latency out of the box.

Features:

• Scalable
• Fault-tolerant
• Functional Programming
• Extensible

Lessons

Basics

1. Basics - Setup, basic types and operations.
2. Collections - List, tuples, keywords, maps, dicts and functional combinators.
3. Enum - A set of functions for working with collections.
4. Pattern Matching - Match operator, matching, and the pin operator.
5. Control Structures - The if/2, unless/2, case, and cond structures.
6. Functions - Anonymous functions, named functions, and guards.
7. Composition - Modules, module attributes, and structs.
8. Mix - Build tool, dependency manager, and CLI tasks.
9. Testing - ExTest and testing best practices.

Advanced

1. Concurrency - Processes, Agents, and Tasks.
2. OTP Behaviors - GenServer, GenEvent, and Supervisors.
3. Distribution - Distribute work to remote nodes.
4. Elixir + Erlang - Interoperability with Erlang.
5. Meta-Programming - Macros, quote, and unquote.
6. Hex Packages - Packaging and sharing functionality with the community.

Specific Tools

1. Plug - Composable modules for web applications.
2. Ecto - Database wrapper and query language.
3. ETS - Erlang Term Service
4. Mnesia - A distributed soft real-time database system in Erlang.