Introducing Elixir: Getting Started in Functional Programming (pdf)

Description

Updated to cover Elixir 1.4, the second edition of this practical book helps you write simple Elixir programs by teaching one skill at a time. Once you pick up pattern matching, process-oriented programming, and other concepts, you’ll understand why Elixir makes it easier to build concurrent and resilient programs that scale up and down with ease.

• Get comfortable with IEx, Elixir’s command line interface
• Learn Elixir’s basic structures by working with numbers
• Discover atoms, pattern matching, and guards: the foundations of your program structure
• Delve into the heart of Elixir processing with recursion, strings, lists, and higher-order functions
• Create Elixir processes and send messages among them
• Store and manipulate structured data with Erlang Term Storage and the Mnesia database
• Build resilient applications with the Open Telecom Platform