Table of Contents
Introduction
- About this tutorial
- So what's Erlang?
- Don't drink too much Kool-Aid
- What you need to dive in
- Where to get help
Starting Out
Starting Out (for real)
- Numbers
- Invariable Variables
- Atoms
- Boolean Algebra and Comparison Operators
- Tuples
- Lists
- List Comprehensions
- Bit Syntax
- Binary Comprehensions
Modules
Syntax in Functions
Types (or lack thereof)
Recursion
- Hello recursion!
- Length
- Length of Tail Recursion
- More recursive functions
- Quick, Sort!
- More than lists
- Thinking recursively
Higher Order Functions
Errors and Exceptions
- Not so fast!
- A Compilation of Errors
- No, YOUR logic is wrong!
- Run-time Errors
- Raising Exceptions
- Dealing with Exceptions
- Wait, there's more!
- Try a try in a tree
Functionally Solving Problems
A Short Visit to Common Data Structures
- Won't be too long, promised!
- Records
- Key-Value Stores
- Arrays
- A Set of Sets
- Directed Graphs
- Queues
- End of the short visit
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Concurrency
- Don't Panic
- Concepts of Concurrency
- Not Entirely Unlike Linear Scaling
- So long and thanks for all the fish!
More On Multiprocessing
Errors and Processes
Coming Soon
- Designing a concurrent application
- Other stuff I have not started writing yet
