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Course Outline

Overview

Use the following index to find reading material and exercises for this course.

For new students, we recommend that you start here.

Elixir Fundamentals

Prerequisites

• Install Elixir
• Install Livebook
• Install Postgres (optional to get started)
• Install Phoenix (optional to get started)
• Setup WSL with Visual Studio Code (Windows Users Only)
• Optionally Install asdf to manage Elixir and Erlang versions.
• Basic understanding of Computer Hardware

Course Tools

• Reading
  • Command Line
  • Git
  • Livebook
  • Code Editors
  • IEx
• Exercises
  • Command Line Family Tree
  • GitHub Engineering Journal
  • Bonus: GitHub Collab

Basics

• Reading
  • Comments
  • Arithmetic
  • Strings
  • IO
  • Booleans
  • Comparison Operators
  • Match Operator
• Exercises
  • Fun Formulas
  • Card Counting
  • Habit Tracker
  • Mad Libs
  • Bonus: Guessing Games

Data Structures And Intro To Pattern Matching

• Reading
  • Atoms
  • Tuples
  • Lists
  • Keyword Lists
  • Maps
• Exercises
  • Shopping List
  • Family Tree
  • Mazes

Control Flow And Abstraction

• Reading
  • Functions
  • Control Flow
• Exercises
  • Naming Numbers
  • Rock Paper Scissors

Modules And Structs

• Reading
  • Modules
  • Structs
• Exercises
  • Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock
  • RPG Dialogue
  • Bonus: Pokemon Battle

Enumeration

• Reading
  • Ranges
  • Enum
• Exercises
  • FizzBuzz
  • Named Number Lists
  • Measurements

Built-in Modules

• Reading
  • Built-In Modules
• Exercises
  • Filter Values By Type
  • Tic-tac-toe

Comprehensions And Non-Enumerable Data Types

• Reading
  • Enumerating on Non-Enumerables
  • Comprehensions
• Exercises
  • Palindrome
  • Anagram
  • Comprehension Search

Reduce

• Reading
  • Reduce
• Exercises
  • Number Finder
  • Custom Enum With Reduce
  • Bonus: Data Traversal

Dates And Time

• Reading
  • Dates and Times
• Exercises
  • Time Converting
  • Itinerary
  • Bonus: Timeline

String Manipulation

• Reading
  • Strings and Binaries
  • Regex
• Exercises
  • Email Validation
  • Caesar Cypher
  • Bonus: Rollable Expressions
  • Bonus: Phone Number Parsing

Recursion

• Reading
  • Recursion
• Exercises
  • Fibonacci
  • Lucas Numbers
  • Bonus: Factorial
  • Bonus: Pascals Triangle

Mix Projects

Elixir Build Tooling

• Reading
  • Mix
• Exercises
  • Games: Setup
  • Games: Guessing Game
  • Games: Rock Paper Scissors

Testing With ExUnit

• Reading
  • ExUnit
• Exercises
  • Games: Wordle Application

Documentation And Static Analysis

• Reading
  • Documentation
• Exercises
  • Drills: Typespecs
  • Games: Documentation and Static Analysis

Executables

• Reading
  • Executables
• Exercises
  • Games: Menu

Advanced Syntax

Advanced Pattern Matching

• Reading
  • Advanced Pattern Matching
• Exercises
  • Drills: Pattern Matching
  • Replacing nils
  • Bonus: Metric Conversion

Guarding

• Reading
  • Guards
  • with
• Exercises
  • Message Validation
  • User Validation
  • Math With Guards

Protocols

• Reading
  • Protocols
• Exercises
  • Math With Protocols
  • Bonus: Battle Map

Persistence Using The File System

• Reading
  • Streams
  • File
• Exercises
  • Drills: Streams
  • Drills: File
  • Save Game
  • Bonus: File System Todo App
  • Bonus: Document Tools
  • Mastery: File Search

OTP

Processes

• Reading
  • Processes
• Exercises
  • Drills: Process
  • Process Mailbox

GenServers

• Reading
  • GenServers
• Exercises
  • Drills: GenServers
  • Score Tracker
  • Stack Server
  • Timer

Testing GenServers

• Reading
  • Testing GenServers
• Exercises
  • Stack GenServer Testing
  • Bonus: Traffic Light Server

Supervisor Basics And Fault Tolerance

• Reading
  • Supervisors
• Exercises
  • Drills: Supervisors
  • Supervised Stack
  • Games: Supervised Score Tracker

Concurrency With Tasks

• Reading
  • Task
  • Task Supervisor
• Exercises
  • Drills: Tasks
  • Concurrent Word Count

Phoenix

HTML And CSS

• Reading
  • HTML + CSS
• Exercises
  • Common Components
  • Bonus: Play FlexBox Froggy
  • Bonus: Play Grid Garden

APIs

• Reading
  • APIs
• Exercises
  • Pokemon API

Relational Databases

• Reading
  • Relational Database Management Systems
• Exercises
  • Drills: SQL Queries

Phoenix

• Reading
  • Phoenix 1.7
  • Bonus: Web Servers
• Exercises
  • Follow Along: Phoenix Counter App
  • Drills: Phoenix

Group Project Blog

• Group Project: Blog

Phoenix And Ecto

• Reading
  • Phoenix and Ecto
• Exercises
  • Blog: Posts

Testing Phoenix

• Reading
  • Testing Phoenix
• Exercises
  • Blog: Search

Phoenix Forms And Components

• Reading
  • Phoenix Components
• Exercises
  • Blog: Visibility Migration

Phoenix And Ecto One-to-Many Associations

• Reading
  • One to Many Associations
• Exercises
  • Blog: Comments

Phoenix Authentication

• Reading
  • Phoenix Authentication
• Exercises
  • Blog: Authentication

Phoenix And Ecto Many-to-Many Relationships

• Reading
  • Many-to-Many Relationships
• Exercises
  • Blog: Tags

Phoenix And Ecto One-to-One Relationships

• Reading
  • One-to-One Relationships
• Exercise
  • Blog: Cover Image

Tailwind

• Reading
  • Tailwind
• Exercises
  • Blog: Home Page

Deployment

• Reading
  • Deployment
• Exercise
  • Blog: Deployment

Custom Feature

• Blog: Custom Feature

Group Project Presentation

• Group Project: Presentation

Capstone Project Preparation

Capstone Project

• Reading
  • Capstone Project: Guide
• Exercises
  • Capstone Project: GitHub Project
  • Capstone Project: Entity-Relationship Diagram
  • Capstone Project: Design Mock

LiveView

LiveView

• Reading
  • LiveView
• Exercises
  • Follow Along: LiveView Counter
  • Bonus: Math Game

LiveView And Ecto

• Instruction
  • PicChat: Messages

LiveView Authentication

• Instruction
  • PicChat: Authentication

LiveView Image Uploads

• Instruction
  • PicChat: Image Upload

PubSub

• Instruction
  • PicChat: PubSub

LiveView JS Interoperability And Pagination

• Instruction
  • PicChat: Pagination and Infinite Scroll

Scheduling And Emailing With Swoosh And Oban

• Instruction
  • PicChat: Emails

Bonus Topics

The following topics are not part of the DockYard Academy core curriculum, but serve as a bonus section for those interested in delving deeper into programming and Elixir.

Performance Optimization

• Reading
  • Lists and Tuples
  • Maps, MapSets, and Keyword Lists
• Exercises
  • Drills: MapSets
  • Fibonacci Challenge

Benchmarking And Performance

• Reading
  • Big O Notation
  • Benchmarking
• Exercises
  • Custom Enum

Ecto Changesets

• Reading
  • Ecto Changeset
• Exercises
  • Sign Up Form
  • Bonus: Book Changeset

State Management With Agents And ETS

• Reading
  • State: Agent and ETS
• Exercises
  • Agent Journal
  • ETS Warehouse
  • Mastery: Advanced Score Tracker

Metaprogramming

• Reading
  • Metaprogramming
• Exercises
  • Meta Math
  • Custom Assertions

Queues

• Reading
  • Queues

Worker Pools

• Worker Pools

Rubix Cube Project

• Rubix Cube