Elixir School

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

This is actively being developed, your feedback is encouraged.

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

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. Composition - Modules, module attributes, and structs.
7. Mix - Build tool, package manager, and CLI tasks.
8. Testing - ExTest and ExSpec.
9. Concurrency - Processes, Agents, and Tasks.
10. Concurrency cont - GenServer, GenEvent, and Supervisors.
11. Distribution - Distribute work to remote nodes.
12. Elixir + Erlang - Interoperability with Erlang.

Examples

Awesome resources

• Awesome Elixir

Contributing

Contributions are welcomed and encouraged! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Please see LICENSE for licensing details.