Introducing Elixir : Getting Started in Functional Programming

Simon St Laurent

ISBN 10: 1491956771 / ISBN 13: 9781491956779

Published by O'reilly Media Feb 2017, 2017

About this Item

Neuware - Smooth, powerful, and small, the Elixir programming language is an excellent place for newcomers to learn about functional programming. This book shows readers how Elixir combines the robust functional programming of Erlang with an approach that looks more like Ruby. Readers will learn how Elixir simplifies some of Erlang's odder corners and reaches toward metaprogramming with powerful macro features. Updated to cover Elixir 1.4.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introducing Elixir : Getting Started in Functional Programming
• Publisher: O'reilly Media Feb 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491956771
• ISBN 13: 9781491956779
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 233W x 177H x 15D millimeters 233 millimeters width by 177 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 438 grams

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Synopsis

Smooth, powerful, and small, Elixir is an excellent language for learning functional programming, and with this hands-on introduction, you’ll discover just how powerful Elixir can be. Authors Simon St. Laurent and J. David Eisenberg show you how Elixir combines the robust functional programming of Erlang with an approach that looks more like Ruby, and includes powerful macro features for metaprogramming.

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

About the Authors

Simon St. Laurent is a Content Manager at LinkedIn Learning, focusing primarily on the client side of the web. He is a past co-chair of the Fluent and OSCON conferences. He's authored or co-authored books including Introducing Elixir, Introducing Erlang, Learning Rails 3, XML Pocket Reference, 3rd edition, XML: A Primer, and Cookies.

You can find more of his writing on technology, Quakerism, and the Town of Dryden at simonstl.com.

David teaches introductory programming, web design, and Linux courses at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, California. He has co-authored several O'Reilly titles.

Twitter: @jdeisenberg