Erlang Masterclass- The Fundamentals

Erlang Masterclass: The Fundamentals, available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.75, with 33 lectures, based on 30 reviews, and has 223 subscribers.

You will learn about Functional programming Erlang Higher order functions BEAM Recursion Pattern matching Anonymous functions List comprehension Side effects This course is ideal for individuals who are Programmers curious about Erlang and functional programming It is particularly useful for Programmers curious about Erlang and functional programming.

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Summary

Title: Erlang Masterclass: The Fundamentals

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 4.75

Number of Lectures: 33

Number of Published Lectures: 33

Number of Curriculum Items: 33

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 33

Original Price: 49.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Functional programming

Erlang

Higher order functions

BEAM

Recursion

Pattern matching

Anonymous functions

List comprehension

Side effects

Who Should Attend

Programmers curious about Erlang and functional programming

Target Audiences

Programmers curious about Erlang and functional programming

You have probably heard about WhatsApp by now. And you might also have heard that it handles a fair amount of users each day. In fact, they managed to grow their user base to millons of users with an engineering team of only 32 persons using Erlang, before being acquired by Facebook. But WhatsApp is not the only success story. You would be surprised if you knew how many of the things you take for granted in your daily life are in fact powered by Erlang. It all started with the telecom business, but Erlang has since then gained popularity in many areas, including fintech, IoT, Healthcare and gaming. Just to name a few!

There are two main paradigms of the Erlang language. The functional paradigm, and the concurrent paradigm.

In this course, we will put our focus on the sequential part of Erlang. You will often hear people claiming that functional programming is very intuitive. And it is. But only once you have understood it! Until then, it can be a struggle to put it mildly. You can think of it a bit like learning how to ride a bicycle. You will probably crash a lot in the beginning, but once you get the hang of it, you’ve got a truly amazing skill at your disposal.

So by taking this course, you will not only learn about Erlang in particular, but you will also learn about functional programming in general. And we will hopefully sort out some confusing topics such as pattern matching, recursion, side effects and higher order functions along the way.

And this will also give you the tools needed for my second course, concurrent Erlang. This will enable you to build massively scalable soft real-time systems.

So, if any of this sounds interesting to you, give it a try and tell me what you think.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Practical info

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Course materials

Lecture 3: Setting up the environment on a Mac

Lecture 4: Setting up the environment on a PC

Lecture 5: Setting up the environment on Linux

Chapter 2: Getting started

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Erlang shell

Lecture 2: The slightly awkward syntax of Erlang

Lecture 3: Different types of data

Lecture 4: Numbers and operators

Lecture 5: Putting it all together

Lecture 6: Splitting the atom

Lecture 7: Oh variables, where art thou?

Lecture 8: Exercises

Chapter 3: Sequential Erlang

Lecture 1: Greetings from the world of Erlang!

Lecture 2: Go with the flow

Lecture 3: Recursion

Lecture 4: Tail recursion

Lecture 5: Tail or body recursion?

Lecture 6: Keep calm and let it crash!

Lecture 7: Exercises

Chapter 4: Becoming a functional hipster

Lecture 1: Fun fun functions!

Lecture 2: Map

Lecture 3: Filter

Lecture 4: Fold

Lecture 5: Just add another layer of abstraction

Lecture 6: List comprehension

Lecture 7: A short note on side effects

Lecture 8: Exercises

Chapter 5: Bonus: More ways to work with data

Lecture 1: Records

Lecture 2: Macros

Lecture 3: Macros and debug flags

Lecture 4: Maps

Chapter 6: Thank you!

Lecture 1: Outro

Instructors

Daniel Hjerpe
Engineer, Erlang enthusiast and Educator

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