Andrea Leopardi
Training: From Zero To Hero With Elixir
Date: 28 April
Venue: Centrum Konferencyjne, Golden Floor Tower, ul. Chłodna 51, 00-867 Warszawa
Description
Elixir can be a demanding programming language to learn. Developers who are coming from object-oriented languages have new concepts to learn, such as modelling programs in a functional way and working with processes and message passing.
In this training day, new Elixir developers will get to lay a firm foundation, presenting all of the core concepts in Elixir.
They'll learn to code and test, from the ground up. They'll start with Elixir datatypes, including maps, structs, tuples, and other primitives. Then, they'll move on to core concepts like using recursion, building higher order functions, composing with pipes, processes, and organising that code into modules.
Once we're through those concepts, we'll build a chatroom on the concurrency concepts that you should know, and if we have enough time, we'll use Erlang's OTP. This is a hands-on tutorial, the best way to teach these new concepts is with tests, and have students make those tests pass.
This is a lab-focused training day so come ready to to do a lot of programming and a lot of learning.
Experience level
Beginner
Andrea is a programming enthusiast with a soft spot for functional programming and beautiful code. He loves learning new stuff. He strongly believes in accessible culture and education and in open-source software. He is active in the Elixir community and uses Elixir almost exclusively for work purposes.
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