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60daysofErlang

Day 6: Functionally Solving Problems

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On this chapter there was nothing interesting from the book, just an implementation of a prefix notation or Polish notation. In Erlang to solve a problem is ...

Day 5: Errors and Exceptions

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Errors come in many flavours such as compile-time errors, logical errors, run-time errors and generated errors. Compile-time errors are often syntactic mista...

Day 4: Higher Order Functions

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In functional programming concept of higher order functions is where we use functions as parameters to other functions. Resulting in the function parameter b...

Day 2: Syntax in Functions

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An = sign in Erlang/Elixir is not about assignment but rather is a match operator, the same way it is in Algebra. Pattern matching allows for using different...

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Programming 101

Day 2: Syntax in Functions

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An = sign in Erlang/Elixir is not about assignment but rather is a match operator, the same way it is in Algebra. Pattern matching allows for using different...

Day 1: Starting Out and Modules

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With Erlang you can try out the language using the Erlang shell by typing erl, one great thing about the Erlang shell is that it has a built-in line editor ...

60 Days of code: Erlang Edition

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I consider myself an advanced beginner in Elixir, being a Rubyist, Elixir was destined to be my next language, like it has been for many other Ruby developer...

Why Typescript

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Writing Javascript at scale is not easy, however, Javascript has experienced a lot of improvements over the past decade making it modern, less buggy, predict...

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Productivity

Compile vs Runtime Evaluation in Elixir

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Elixir despite being a compiled language, it somehow behaves like an interpreted language. For instance Usually you would not put an Application.get_env or S...

Vim: Notes and Cheats

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So according to my good friend Wikipedia Vim is a clone, with additions, of Bill Joy’s vi text editor program for Unix. Vim’s author, Bram Moolenaar, based i...

Tmux: Notes and Cheats

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Tmux as defined in Wikipedia is a terminal multiplexer for Unix-like operating systems. It allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously in...

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Errors

Day 6: Functionally Solving Problems

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On this chapter there was nothing interesting from the book, just an implementation of a prefix notation or Polish notation. In Erlang to solve a problem is ...

Day 5: Errors and Exceptions

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Errors come in many flavours such as compile-time errors, logical errors, run-time errors and generated errors. Compile-time errors are often syntactic mista...

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algorithims

Algorithms: Hash Tables

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This theme supports link posts, made famous by John Gruber. To use, just add link: http://url-you-want-linked to the post’s YAML front matter and you’re done.

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Welcome

Welcome to Dear Fola!

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Here you will find posts about different things I learned and continue to learn on a daily basis. Most of the things will cover software development, but on ...

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hello

Welcome to Dear Fola!

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Here you will find posts about different things I learned and continue to learn on a daily basis. Most of the things will cover software development, but on ...

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Datastructures

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data structures

Algorithms: Hash Tables

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This theme supports link posts, made famous by John Gruber. To use, just add link: http://url-you-want-linked to the post’s YAML front matter and you’re done.

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hacks

Different ways to call a method in Ruby

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Ruby has many ways of doing the same thing, for instance when you have an array to get its size you could either use one of the following methods: Array.size...

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Design Patterns

Factory Method

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Factory Method is a creational design pattern that provides an interface for creating objects in a superclass, but allows subclasses to alter the type of obj...

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Modules

Day 1: Starting Out and Modules

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With Erlang you can try out the language using the Erlang shell by typing erl, one great thing about the Erlang shell is that it has a built-in line editor ...

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Immutability

Day 1: Starting Out and Modules

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With Erlang you can try out the language using the Erlang shell by typing erl, one great thing about the Erlang shell is that it has a built-in line editor ...

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Data Structures

Day 1: Starting Out and Modules

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With Erlang you can try out the language using the Erlang shell by typing erl, one great thing about the Erlang shell is that it has a built-in line editor ...

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Pattern Matching

Day 2: Syntax in Functions

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An = sign in Erlang/Elixir is not about assignment but rather is a match operator, the same way it is in Algebra. Pattern matching allows for using different...

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Type System

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Higher Order Functions

Day 4: Higher Order Functions

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In functional programming concept of higher order functions is where we use functions as parameters to other functions. Resulting in the function parameter b...

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Closures

Day 4: Higher Order Functions

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In functional programming concept of higher order functions is where we use functions as parameters to other functions. Resulting in the function parameter b...

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Common Data Structures

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Multiprocessing

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spawn

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