Introducing Elixir. Getting Started in Functional Programming

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• Introducing Elixir
• Preface
  • Who This Book Is For
  • Who This Book Is Not For
  • What This Book Will Do For You
  • How This Book Works
  • Other Resources
  • Elixir Will Change You
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Using Code Examples
  • Help This Book Grow
  • Please Use It For Good
  • Safari Books Online
  • How to Contact Us
  • Acknowledgments
• 1. Getting Comfortable
  • Installation
    • Installing Erlang
    • Installing Elixir
  • Firing It Up
  • First Steps
    • Moving Through Text and History
    • Moving Through Files
  • Doing Something
  • Calling Functions
  • Numbers in Elixir
  • Working with Variables in the Shell
• 2. Functions and Modules
  • Fun with fn
  • And the &
  • Defining Modules
  • From Module to Free-Floating Function
  • Splitting Code Across Modules
  • Combining Functions with the Pipe Operator
  • Importing Functions
  • Default Values for Arguments
  • Documenting Code
  • Documenting Functions
  • Documenting Modules
• 3. Atoms, Tuples, and Pattern Matching
  • Atoms
  • Pattern Matching with Atoms
  • Atomic Booleans
  • Guards
  • Underscoring That You Dont Care
  • Adding Structure: Tuples
    • Pattern Matching with Tuples
    • Processing Tuples
• 4. Logic and Recursion
  • Logic Inside of Functions
    • Evaluating Cases
    • Adjusting to Conditions
    • If, or else
    • Variable Assignment in case and if Constructs
  • The Gentlest Side Effect: IO.puts
  • Simple Recursion
    • Counting Down
    • Counting Up
    • Recursing with Return Values
• 5. Communicating with Humans
  • Strings
  • Multiline Strings
  • Unicode
  • Character Lists
  • String Sigils
  • Asking Users for Information
    • Gathering Characters
    • Reading Lines of Text
• 6. Lists
  • List Basics
  • Splitting Lists into Heads and Tails
  • Processing List Content
  • Creating Lists with Heads and Tails
  • Mixing Lists and Tuples
  • Building a List of Lists
• 7. Name-Value Pairs
  • Keyword Lists
  • Lists of Tuples with Multiple Keys
  • Hash Dictionaries
  • From Lists to Maps
    • Creating Maps
    • Updating Maps
    • Reading Maps
  • From Maps to Structs
    • Setting Up Structs
    • Creating and Reading Structs
    • Pattern Matching Against Structs
    • Using Structs in Functions
    • Adding Behavior to Structs
    • Adding to Existing Protocols
• 8. Higher-Order Functions and List Comprehensions
  • Simple Higher-Order Functions
  • Creating New Lists with Higher-Order Functions
    • Reporting on a List
    • Running List Values Through a Function
    • Filtering List Values
  • Beyond List Comprehensions
    • Testing Lists
    • Splitting Lists
    • Folding Lists
• 9. Playing with Processes
  • The Shell Is a Process
  • Spawning Processes from Modules
  • Lightweight Processes
  • Registering a Process
  • When Processes Break
  • Processes Talking Amongst Themselves
  • Watching Your Processes
    • Watching Messages Among Processes
  • Breaking Things and Linking Processes
• 10. Exceptions, Errors, and Debugging
  • Flavors of Errors
  • Rescuing Code from Runtime Errors as They Happen
  • Logging Progress and Failure
  • Tracing Messages
  • Watching Function Calls
  • Writing Unit Tests
• 11. Storing Structured Data
  • Records: Structured Data Before structs
    • Setting Up Records
    • Creating and Reading Records
    • Using Records in Functions
  • Storing Data in Erlang Term Storage
    • Creating and Populating a Table
    • Simple Queries
    • Overwriting Values
    • ETS Tables and Processes
    • Next Steps
  • Storing Records in Mnesia
    • Starting up Mnesia
    • Creating Tables
    • Reading Data
• 12. Getting Started with OTP
  • Creating Services with gen_server
  • A Simple Supervisor
  • Packaging an Application with Mix
• 13. Using Macros to Extend Elixir
  • Functions versus Macros
  • A Simple Macro
  • Creating New Logic
  • Creating Functions Programatically
  • When (Not) to Use Macros
  • Sharing the Gospel of Elixir
• A. An Elixir Parts Catalog
  • Shell Commands
  • Reserved Words
  • Operators
  • Guard Components
  • Common Functions
  • Datatypes for Documentation and Analysis
• B. Generating Documentation with ExDoc
  • Using ExDoc with mix
• Index
• Colophon
• Copyright

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