Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! A Beginner's Guide

by Hebert, Fred

• ISBN13: 9781593274351
• ISBN10: 1593274351
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-01-13
• Publisher: No Starch Press

Summary

As the old saying goes: Some people take sugar with their coffee and some programmers take cartoons with their Erlang. Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!is a hilariously illustrated guide to the concurrent functional programming language you've heard so much about. You'll start out with the basics and learn all about the shell, tuples, list comprehensions, and bit syntax. Once you've got the easy stuff down, you'll work your way through tougher concepts like clients and servers, message passing, open telecom platform applications, and all of those other catchy Erlang phrases you'd love to brag to your friends about. As you laugh along with Hebert's brilliantly quirky drawings, you'll effortlessly pick up this complex language and have fun while you're at it.

Author Biography

Fred Hébert is a self-taught programmer who taught Erlang. He spent time working on a real-time bidding platform and was named Erlang User of the Year 2012, and has since joined the routing team at Heroku, building large scale production systems with Erlang. His online tutorial, Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!, is widely regarded as the best way to learn Erlang.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Joe Armstrong
Introduction
Chapter 1: Starting Out
Chapter 2: Modules
Chapter 3: Syntax in Functions
Chapter 4: Types (or Lack Therof)
Chapter 5: Hello Recursion!
Chapter 6: Higher-Order Functions
Chapter 7: Errors and Exceptions
Chapter 8: Functionally Solving Problems
Chapter 9: A Short Visit to Common Data Structures
Chapter 10: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Concurrency
Chapter 11: More on Multiprocessing
Chapter 12: Errors and Processes
Chapter 13: Designing a Concurrent Application
Chapter 14: An Introduction to OTP
Chapter 15: Rage Against the Finite-State Machines
Chapter 16: Event Handlers
Chapter 17: Who Supervises the Supervisors?
Chapter 18: Building an Application
Chapter 19: Building Applications the OTP Way
Chapter 20: The Count of Applications
Chapter 21: Release Is the Word
Chapter 22: Leveling Up in the Process Quest
Chapter 23: Buckets of Sockets
Chapter 24: EUnited Nations Council
Chapter 25: Bears, ETS, Beets: In-Memory NoSQL for Free!
Chapter 26: Distribunomicon
Chapter 27: Distributed OTP Applications
Chapter 28: Common Test for Uncommon Tests
Chapter 29: Mnesia and the Art of Remembering
Chapter 30: Type Specifications and Dialyzer
Afterword
Appendix: On Erlang's Syntax
Index