L1
Honest Take — Before You Begin
Honest reflections on a language that looks like Ruby but thinks like nothing else
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Course · 4 lessons
~60 hr
Intermediate
Elixir Language Mastery
Elixir Language Mastery covers: Programming Elixir. Master the Elixir language itself — syntax, data types, pattern matching, processes, protocols, macros, Mix, Hex, and the standard library. Move from "I can read Elixir" to "I think in Elixir."
reading · we frame, you read MIT or the canonical
taught · we author, no canonical fits
↺ spirals back to earlier lessons
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Complete Functional Programming Foundations first.
This course unlocks once you've finished its prerequisite. Open prerequisite →
L2
Programming Elixir: The Pickaxe Author's Second Love
The person who wrote Programming Ruby — the Pickaxe, the book that carried Ruby out of Japan and into your career — got to choose, years later, which language deserved that same t…
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Pragmatic Studio: Elixir & OTP
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L3
Module Checklist
Work through each item before the checkpoint.
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L4
Project: GitHub Issues CLI
A Mix command-line application — the Elixir equivalent of building a small Ruby gem. Data flows through a pipeline of pure functions, errors flow through pattern-matched {:ok, }/{…
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4 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.