Course Outline

Overview

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Welcome

• Start Here

Core Syntax

Course Tools

• Reading
  • Command Line
  • Git
  • Livebook
  • Code Editors
  • IEx
• Exercises
  • Command Line Family Tree
  • GitHub Engineering Journal
  • GitHub Collab

Basics

• Reading
  • Comments
  • Arithmetic
  • Strings
  • IO
  • Booleans
  • Comparison Operators
  • Match Operator
• Exercises
  • Fun Formulas
  • Card Counting
  • Habit Tracker
  • Mad Libs
  • Bonus: Guessing Games

Data Structures and Intro to Pattern Matching

• Reading
  • Atoms
  • Tuples
  • Lists
  • Keyword Lists
  • Maps
• Exercises
  • Shopping List
  • Family Tree
  • Mazes

Control Flow and Abstraction

• Reading
  • Functions
  • Control Flow
• Exercises
  • Naming Numbers
  • Rock Paper Scissors

Modules and Structs

• Reading
  • Modules
  • Structs
• Exercises
  • Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock
  • RPG Dialogue
  • Bonus: Pokemon Battle

Enumeration

• Reading
  • Ranges
  • Enum
• Exercises
  • FizzBuzz
  • Named Number Lists
  • Counting Votes
  • Bonus: Measurements
  • Bonus: A Safe Range

Comprehensions and Non-Enumerable Data Types

• Reading
  • Enumerating on Non-Enumerables
  • Comprehensions
• Exercises
  • Palindrome
  • Anagram
  • Animal Generator
  • Book Search

Built-in Modules

• Reading
  • Built-In Modules
• Exercises
  • Filter Values By Type
  • Tic-tac-toe

Reduce

• Reading
  • Reduce
• Exercises
  • Number Finder
  • Weighted Voting
  • Custom Enum With Reduce

Dates and Time

• Reading
  • Dates and Times
• Exercises
  • Time Converting
  • Itinerary
  • Timeline

String Manipulation

• Reading
  • Strings and Binaries
  • Regex
• Exercises
  • Email Validation
  • Caesar Cypher
  • Rollable Expressions
  • Bonus: Phone Number Parsing

Mix Projects

Elixir Build Tooling

• Reading
  • Mix
• Exercises
  • Games: Setup
  • Games: Guessing Game
  • Games: Rock Paper Scissors

Testing With ExUnit

• Reading
  • ExUnit
• Exercises
  • Math Module Testing
  • Product Filters

ExUnit With Mix Projects

• Reading
  • Elixir-lang: import
  • Elixir-lang: alias
  • ExUnit With Mix
• Exercises
  • Games: Wordle Application

Documentation and Static Analysis

• Reading
  • Doctests
  • Typespecs
  • ExDoc
  • Credo
• Exercises
  • Drills: Typespecs
  • Games: Documentation and Static Analysis

Executables

• Reading
  • Executables
• Exercises
  • Games: Menu

OTP and Advanced Syntax

Advanced Pattern Matching

• Reading
  • Advanced Pattern Matching
• Exercises
  • Treasure Matching
  • Replacing nils
  • Rock Paper Scissors Pattern Matching
  • Bonus: Metric Conversion

Guarding

• Reading
  • Guards
  • with
• Exercises
  • Message Validation
  • With Points
  • Math With Guards
  • Bonus: Rock Paper Scissors Guards

Protocols

• Reading
  • Protocols
• Exercises
  • Math With Protocols
  • Consumable Protocol
  • Bonus: Battle Map

Recursion

• Reading
  • Recursion
• Exercises
  • Fibonacci
  • Lucas Numbers
  • Factorial
  • Bonus: Pascals Triangle

Benchmarking and Performance

• Reading
  • Computer Hardware
  • Big O Notation
  • Benchmarking
• Exercises
  • Games: Benchmarking
  • Custom Enum

Streams

• Reading
  • Streams
• Exercises
  • Drills: Streams
  • Lazy Product Filters

Performance Optimization

• Reading
  • Lists and Tuples
  • Maps, MapSets, and Keyword Lists
• Exercises
  • Drills: MapSets
  • MapSet Product Filters
  • Fibonacci Challenge

Persistence Using the File System

• Reading
  • File
• Exercises
  • Drills: File
  • Save Game
  • Bonus: File System Todo App
  • Bonus: Document Tools
  • Mastery: File Search

Processes

• Reading
  • Processes
  • HexDocs: Process
• Exercises
  • Drills: Process
  • Process Mailbox

GenServers

• Reading
  • Generic Server
  • Hexdocs: GenServer
• Exercises
  • Stack Server
  • Traffic Light Server
  • Bonus: Pokemon Server

Asynchronous Messages

• Reading
  • Asynchronous Messages
• Exercises
  • Mailbox Server
  • Score Tracker
  • Timer

Supervisor Basics and Fault Tolerance

• Reading
  • Supervisors
• Exercises
  • Supervised Stack
  • Dominoes
  • Monster Spawner

Testing GenServers

• Reading
  • Testing GenServers
• Exercises
  • Stack GenServer Testing
  • Games: Score Tracker

Metaprogramming

• Reading
  • Metaprogramming
• Exercises
  • Meta Math
  • Custom Assertions

Mix Projects and Processes

• Reading
  • Supervised Mix Project
• Exercises
  • Drills: Supervisors and GenServers
  • Games: Supervisor Setup
  • Games: Supervised Score Tracker

Concurrency With Tasks

• Reading
  • Task
  • Task Supervisor
• Exercises
  • Drills: Tasks
  • Concurrent Word Count

State Management With Agents and ETS

• Reading
  • State: Agent and ETS
• Exercises
  • Agent Journal
  • ETS Warehouse
  • Mastery: Advanced Score Tracker

Rubix Cube Project

• Rubix Cube

Capstone Project Preparation

Capstone Project

• Captone Project Guide

Web Servers and Phoenix

HTML and CSS

• Reading
  • HTML + CSS
• Exercises
  • Common Components
  • Bonus: Play FlexBox Froggy
  • Bonus: Play Grid Garden
  • Bonus: Home Page

APIs and Parsing JSON

• Reading
  • APIs
• Exercises
  • Spoonacular Recipe API
  • Mastery: Pokemon API

Phoenix

• Reading
  • Web Servers
  • HexDocs: Phoenix Up and Running
  • Phoenix 1.6
  • Bonus: Phoenix 1.7
• Exercises
  • Drills: Phoenix
  • In-Memory TodoList

Tailwind

• Reading
  • Tailwind
• Exercises
  • Tailwind CSS Components
  • Mastery: Portfolio

Ecto Changesets

• Reading
  • Ecto Changeset
• Exercises
  • Sign Up Form
  • Bonus: Book Changeset

Group Project Blog

• Group Project: Blog

Phoenix and Ecto

• Reading
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Phoenix and Ecto
• Exercises
  • Drills: SQL Queries
  • Blog: Posts

Testing Phoenix

• Reading
  • Phoenix: Introduction to Testing
  • BookSearch: Authors
• Exercises
  • Blog: Search

Schemas and Migrations

• Reading
  • Schemas and Migrations
• Exercises
  • Blog: Visibility Migration

Phoenix and Ecto One-to-Many Associations

• Reading
  • BookSearch: Books
• Exercises
  • Blog: Comments

Seeding

• Reading
  • BookSearch: Seeding
• Exercises
  • Blog: Seeding

Phoenix Forms

• Reading
  • BookSearch: Book Form
• Exercises
  • Blog: Comment Form

Phoenix Authentication

• Reading
  • Phoenix Authentication
• Exercises
  • Blog: Authentication

Phoenix and Ecto Many-to-Many Relationships

• Reading
  • BookSearch: Tags
• Exercises
  • Blog: Tags

Phoenix and Ecto One-to-One Relationships

• Reading
  • BookSearch: Book Content
• Exercise
  • Blog: Blog Content

Deployment

• Reading
  • BookSearch: Deployment
• Exercise
  • Project Deployment

Group Project Presentation

• Group Project: Presentation

LiveView

LiveView

• Reading
  • LiveView
• Exercises
  • Math Game

LiveView and Ecto

• Instruction
  • PicChat: Messages

LiveView Image Uploads

• Instruction
  • PicChat: Image Upload

PubSub

• Instruction
  • PicChat: PubSub

LiveView JS Interoperability and Pagination

• Instruction
  • PicChat: Infinite Scroll

External Libraries

Emailing, Swoosh, and Oban

• Instruction
  • Newsletter