Hi @magnetic,

I’ll be the instructor of this workshop and it’ll be focused on getting someone that knows how to code (I’m assuming likely from OO languages) up and running with Elixir. There will be some theory and live coding during the 2h sync sessions and also some “homework” to help cement the ideas discussed.

In terms of the content here’s the rough plan (can diverge a bit based on the people attending):

Day 1 - Start slow, Elixir syntax, basic types, immutability
Day 2 - Pattern matching, multiple dispatching, and other cool Elixir base features
Day 3 - Streams, Structs, Protocols, Behaviors, compile vs run time
Day 4 - OTP Applications, Processes, Tasks
Day 5 - Supervisors, Supervision Tree, Registry
Day 6 - Dynamic Supervisors, ETS, GenServer
Day 7 & 8 - Phoenix (maybe LiveView)

Day 7 can be more focused on GenStage, Flow and Broadway instead of Phoenix, depending on the interest of the class.

I have a lot of experience teaching programming, from small workshops, large bootcamps to Computer Science Master’s, I’ve taught a bit of everything, while still coding professionally, which I’ve done in Elixir for the past 3 and half years. Hopefully this means that I’ll be able to convey the topics appropriately and do them justice, because Elixir is a language I really enjoy working and want to pass that joy along.

As Laura mentioned we’re not taking any money out of this, it’s all going to be donated to help fight this pandemic, which we believe to be a worthy cause.

Hi @lauraesteves,

Thanks, this sounds like a great initiative. Would you be so kind to provide more information about the content of the workshop, as well as about those who are going to conduct the workshop (instructors).

Don’t get me wrong, I think it is cool to have workshops like this, but it will be beneficial for readers as well as for you to provide more information, so we can decide, if the content is relevant/interesting

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