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RailsConf 2014 - Workshop - All Aboard The Elixir Express! by Chris McCord

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Beginner. No background in the topic needed.

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Programming languagesDistributed systemsElixir and ErlangConcurrency and parallelismFault tolerance and failure

Chris McCord introduces Elixir basics, concurrency, fault tolerance, and distributed programming in this hands-on workshop.

Elixir provides the joy and productivity of Ruby with the concurrency and fault-tolerance of Erlang. Together, we'll take a guided tour through the language, going from the very basics to macros and distributed programming. Along the way, we'll see how Elixir embraces concurrency and how we can construct self-healing programs that restart automatically on failure. Attendees should leave with a great head-start into Elixir, some minor language envy, and a strong desire to continue exploration. Help us caption & translate this video! amara.org/v/FGZr/

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What people say. Recommended as an excellent introductory talk for beginners struggling to understand Elixir and its concurrency model.

u/aresfieldsin r/elixir • Recommends

For folks who are having a difficult time getting into elixir, here are talks that did it for me. I looked at elixir a while ago and didn't get it. I knew it was running on top of erlang VM which sounded cool, but otherwise just seemed like it was trying to be ruby without classes. Mutability is evil and something about data transfer, functions and pattern matching. I thought pattern matching had something to do with regex. Anyway, I just brushed it aside at the time. I think coming from ruby with an object oriented mentality it was difficult to grasp key concepts and definitions. More importantly, it was difficult to understand reasons behind them and their benefits. I wanted to sha…
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u/gabriel_dnyin r/elixir • Recommends

One of the best videos for elixir beginners - from one of the best devs
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u/pushadin r/elixir • Mentions

On “Elixir from C# and PHP”

I've also come from a PHP background and I've found that Dave Thomas' *Programming Elixir* is a great intro to the language. I also enjoyed /u/chrismccord's Elixir Workshop at RailsConf 2014 while I waited for the book to arrive.
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u/gausbyin r/elixir • Mentions

On “Are there any elixir videos that are highly recommended to watch for a newcomer?”

Chris McCord did a 3+ hours workshop on twitter at RailsConf 2014. link to this video
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u/letseatlunchin r/elixir • Mentions

On “Are there any tutorials that you know of to help those who know JavaScript to learn/segue to Elixir ?”

I recently started reading the kindle version of this during my commute and it's pretty great. I heard about the book when watching this tutorial. The video is pretty good because it is 3h 20m long and covers most of the book (the presenter learned from the book as well from what I can tell)
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