🎓 Complete Elixir Course - From Zero to Expert

Welcome to the complete Elixir course! This course will take you from basic concepts to building web applications with Phoenix.

📚 Course Index

Module 1: Introduction to Elixir

• What is Elixir?
• Why Elixir?
• Installing Elixir
• Interactive Elixir (IEx)
• Basic syntax

Module 2: Elixir Fundamentals

• Data types and structures
• Pattern matching
• Functions and modules
• Pipe operator
• Control flow

Module 3: Advanced Elixir Concepts

• Processes and concurrency
• Message passing
• OTP basics
• GenServer introduction
• Supervision trees

Module 4: Working with Mix

• What is Mix?
• Creating Mix projects
• Project structure
• Dependencies with Hex
• Testing with ExUnit
• Building a CLI application

Module 5: Introduction to Phoenix

• What is Phoenix Framework?
• Installing Phoenix
• Creating your first Phoenix project
• Understanding MVC in Phoenix
• Ecto basics

Module 6: Phoenix Web Development

• Routes and controllers
• Views and templates
• Working with databases (Ecto)
• LiveView basics
• Real-time features
• Building a complete web application

Module 7: Practical Exercises

• Progressive exercises
• Real projects
• Commented solutions

🚀 How to Use This Course

Option 1: Using Containers (Recommended)

Each module has a pre-configured container environment:

# Build and run the development container
cd containers
podman build -f Dockerfile.dev -t elixir-course-dev .
podman run -it --rm -p 4000:4000 -p 5432:5432 elixir-course-dev

# Or use the multi-service setup
podman-compose up -d

Option 2: Local Development

1. Read each module in order - The course is designed to be progressive
2. Practice each example - Run all code in your terminal or IEx
3. Do the exercises - Practice is fundamental
4. Get extra practice - Use Exercism's Elixir Track for 90+ exercises with free mentoring
5. Experiment - Don't be afraid to try variations

📋 Prerequisites

• Basic programming knowledge (any language)
• Command line/terminal familiarity
• Elixir 1.14+ and Erlang/OTP 24+ installed (see Module 1 for installation)
  • Recommended: Use asdf version manager for easy Erlang and Elixir management
• Willingness to learn 😊

🎯 Course Objective

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:

• ✅ Write Elixir code confidently
• ✅ Build Mix projects
• ✅ Understand concurrent programming
• ✅ Create web applications with Phoenix
• ✅ Work with databases using Ecto
• ✅ Apply functional programming principles

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📖 Let's Begin

👉 Go to Module 1: Introduction to Elixir

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📚 Reference Guides

• START-HERE.md - Complete start guide with study plans
• QUICK-GUIDE.md - Syntax and command cheat sheet
• ADDITIONAL-RESOURCES.md - Links, books, videos, community

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💻 Practical Examples

The examples/ directory contains ready-to-run projects:

1. Simple Mix CLI (examples/01-mix-cli/)
2. Task Manager API (examples/02-task-api/)
3. Phoenix Web App (examples/03-phoenix-webapp/)

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Teacher: Remember that practice is the key to learning! Don't hesitate to experiment and make mistakes.