Erlang for Beginners

An introductory course introducing the key concepts in Erlang. They include its functional heritage, concurrency and error handling. The course provides most prerequisites to attend the OTP course and a range of follow up courses which can be used to guide developers through advanced topics focusing on Erlang architectures and operations.

Format: 3 day workshop (09:15–14:45 PT)

Covers: why use Erlang; the Shell, types and constructs; sequential programming; unit testing; thinking concurrently; process design patterns; process error handling and fault tolerance; functional programming constructs; maps and records; ETS tables; and good design practices.