Introduction

A short introduction to the fundamentals of functional programming.

• introduction.pdf

After the lecture

• Make sure that you have a running Elixir system installed on your computer.
• Decide which editor or IDE that you want to use and learn how to compile and run small examples.
• Read the introduction to lambda calculus.
• Take a look at the slides for the next lecture.

Elixir concepts

The only concepts that we will use so far are simple data structures: atoms, integers and tuples, and how to do pattern matching over these.

• Elixir: Introduction
• Elixir: Basic types - arithmetic
• Elixir: Basic types - atoms
• Elixir: Basic types - tuples
• Elixir: Pattern matching