Elixir Fundamentals

Elixir's combination of modern language features, and a 30-year-old battle-tested foundation at its core, has made it increasingly popular over the past year

Elixir Fundamentals

Stage One Liftoff

Elixir is in a fairly unique position as a programming language, in that it combines contemporary language features and excellent developer ergonomics with the established and battle-tested Erlang ecosystem.

  • Duration: 120 minutes
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Stage Two Types, Operators & Control Flow

Our journey starts with basic types and procedural logic. Even if you're experienced in a wide range of programming languages, there's going to be a lot of stuff -- even at this basic level -- that may change the way you look at writing code forever.

  • Duration: 400 minutes
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Stage Three Writing Modular Programs

Elixir's module system allows us to define layers of related functions. In this part of the course, we'll explore the concepts of modules, and the ability to reference code in one module from another.

  • Duration: 240 minutes
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Stage Four Working With Data Structures

Earlier we outlined and worked with several different types of data structures. Let's take a closer look at some of these methods.

  • Duration: 210 minutes
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Solid Foundation

Learning a programming language in "as-needed" chunks can leave holes in critical areas of knowledge. In this course, there's no worry of "not knowing what you don't know".

The Functional Way

Many developers come to Elixir from a less functionally-oriented language like Ruby or JavaScript. We'll help you adjust the way you think, so you'll start forming good habits from day one!

Ecosystem Aligned

You'll learn how to align your code with Elixir and Erlang language-specific idioms, opinions and conventions. Why learn things the hard way on your own?