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April 15, 2020
On this day in 1924, Rand McNally published their first road atlas, helping motorists find their way through new and unknown territory.
This week, our friends at Grox.io continue to help you find your way through new and unknown territory with their tribute to Joe Armstrong, Programmer Passport: Elixir. Read on for details.
As times get harder, you need every bit of help you can get. Start here.
Programmer Passport: Elixir
Chapters 5 and 6 shift our focus from beginner content to some of the elements of Elixir that give intermediate developers trouble. We'll work with key-value data first, and then move on to maps.
In Chapter 5, we build a couple of programs to illustrate these concepts. The roman project works with data in bulk, building a complex map with a list of tuples instead of inserting key-value sets one at a time. We also continue our SVG graphics project to illustrate the use of structs, and add some lessons about public APIs.
Chapter 6 addresses processes and concurrency. Elixir's shared-nothing architecture for processes make it ideal for working with concurrent problems at scale. We'll build a project using primitives from the ground up, with message mailboxes and pattern matches. Along the way, we'll look into the tools the IEx console provides for working with processes.
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