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An Animated Introduction to Elixir
This is a collection of guided code walk-throughs introducing the functional, concurrent programming language, Elixir. Elixir is based on another really cool language called Erlang. If you have never programmed in the functional paradigm or explicitly created and managed processes then learning Elixir should be a fascinating introduction into these topics.
I begin by covering the basics of the Elixir programming language.
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https://markm208.github.io/exbook/
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