Learn Functional Programming with Elixir
by Ulisses Almeida (2018)
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Los-Gatos-Rust-Reading-Group/events/277022891/
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84281187589
O’Reilly: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/learn-functional-programming/9781680505757/
Source code (zip file): https://media.pragprog.com/titles/cdc-elixir/code/cdc-elixir-code.zip
UPDATE March 25, 2021 - 9pm - After some lengthy discussion about Elixir books at the meetup, which ended up taking all of our time tonight, we have come up with a nice list of books to consider. We’ll be discussing those further next week. For now, it looks like the best book to go to from here, which would be conducive to good discussions and be informative for beginners, particularly on the topic of OTP, would be
Elixir in Action (2nd edition)
Afterwards, we can shift gears and proceed onto more challenging books such as
Designing Elixir Systems with OTP: Write Highly Scalable, Self-Healing Software with Layers
Real-Time Phoenix: Build Highly Scalable Systems with Channels
UPDATE March 25, 2021 - We’re back to meeting today to cover Chapter 5. Yay! Hopefully we’ll be able to wrap up the book in the next couple of weeks.
March 24, 2021 - For lack of interest at Chapter 5 of this seven-chapter book, Thursday nights are switching over to deep learning in a couple of weeks. If there is interest in doing the Elixir book “Programming Phoenix”, please let me know. I plan to finish the last two chapters of “Learn FP with Elixir” on my own. Thanks to all who have participated up to this point, making it a fun entry into this new language!
Chapter 5 Using Higher-Order Functions March 25, 2021 | Presenter |
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Creating Higher-Order Functions for Lists | -- |
Using the Enum Module | -- |
Using Comprehensions | |
Pipelining Your Functions | -- |
Be Lazy | -- |
Exercises 1 - 4 |
Chapter 4 Diving into Recursion | Presenter |
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Surrounded by Boundaries | Ganesh |
Conquering Recursion | Casey |
Tail-Call Optimization | -- |
Functions Without Borders | -- |
Using Recursion with Anonymous Functions | -- |
Exercises 1 - 5 | -- |
Chapter 3 Using Pattern Matching to Control the Program Flow February 18, 2021 | Presenter |
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Making Two Things Match | Casey |
Unpacking Values from Various Types | Ganesh |
Control Flow with Functions | Abhik |
Expanding Control with Guard Clauses | Ganesh |
Elixir Control-Flow Structures | Casey |
Exercises 1 - 4 | Casey, Ganesh |
Chapter 2 February 11, 2021 | Presenter |
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Representing Values | Ganesh |
Creating Anonymous Functions | Casey |
Naming Functions | Ganesh |
Exercises 1 - 4 | Casey |