Introduction

A short introduction to the fundamentals of functional programming. This is not an introduction to Erlang lixirbut to the concepts of functional programming that is common for all languages in the family: Erlang, Haskell, Scala, F#, Lisp, Ocaml etc. If you know the fundamental principles you can easily pick up any language.

* introduction.pdf
* lambda.pdf
After the lecture
* Make sure that you have a running Erlanglixir system installed on your computer.
* Decide which editor or IDE that you want to use and learn how to compile and run small examples.
* Gain access to the on-line lectures Erlang Express from Erlang Solutions. Look at the following lectures:
* Introduction to Erlang
* Erlang Data Types
* Variables and Pattern Matching

* Read the introduction to lambda calculus.
* Take a look at the slides for the next lecture.