Elixir koans
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Dave Thomas is a renowned programmer and author known for coining the phrases "Code Kata" and "DRY". He recently gave a keynote talk at Empex 2018 about architecture in Elixir projects. Katas and koans are practices for improving programming skills. Katas are simple practice problems while koans reveal underlying truths through questions. Resources for finding Elixir katas and koans include Codewars, Exercism, a GitHub katas repository, and an Elixir koans project.
Elixir koans
- 3. Tips defguard and defguardp ( > Elixir 1.6 )
- 4. Tips .iex
- 5. Info ● Phoenix 1.4 is coming – Changed brunch for webpack – http2 support (not by default)
- 6. Info Nerves 1.0 released (May 2nd 2018)
- 7. Phoenix in Raspberry PI
- 8. Wireless Node connection in Raspberry PI
- 11. Talks Empex 2018 ● Dave Thomas (Key Note) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7cLUygMeI – Architecture of projects in Elixirs
- 12. Dave Thomas ● Author and/or co-author of different books on topics like: Ruby, Unit Testing, Agile Web Development, Programming Elixir, etc. ● Coined phrases: Code Kata, ‘DRY’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thomas_(programmer)
- 13. Katas http://codekata.com/ ● Practice session ● Simple thing to try ● It’s ok to make mistakes ● Feedback? ● Hard to practice in a project environment ● A good practice session will give you new knowledge
- 14. Koans http://codekata.com/kata/kata-kumite-koan-and-dreyfus/ ● Are questions ● Used to break down assumptions ● Reveal underlying truths. ● The goal of a koan is not the answer, but thinking about the question.
- 15. Where can we found Katas and/or Koans in Elixir? ● Katas – https://www.codewars.com – http://exercism.io/languages/elixir/about – http://github.com/elixircalgary/katas ● Koan – https://github.com/elixirkoans/elixir-koans