Introducing Elixir: Getting Started in Functional Programming
Laurent, Simon St; Eisenberg, J. David
ISBN 10: 1491956771 ISBN 13: 9781491956779
Published by O'Reilly Media, 2017
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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 Author: Simon St. Laurent is Senior Editor at O'Reilly Media, Inc., focusing primarily on JavaScript and web-related projects. He is co-chair of the Fluent conference. He's authored or co-authored books including Introducing Elixir, Introducing Erlang, Learning Rails 3, XML Pocket Reference, 3rd, XML: A Primer, and Cookies. 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.
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Title: Introducing Elixir: Getting Started in ...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
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Edition: 2nd Edition