The DockYard Academy curriculum is an open source curriculum to help students learn Elixir.
The beta_curriculum is a work in progress effort available for feedback and contribution.
When launched, this curriculum will be used as the primary teaching material in DockYard Academy.
Contributors and beta testers are welcome to go through the course, raise issues, and make PRs.
Contact Brooklin (brooklin.myers@dockyard.com) or DM at @BrooklinJMyers on Twitter if you would like more information.
- install a compatible Elixir and Erlang version. You may wish to use asdf.
- Install livebook main
mix escript.install github livebook-dev/livebook. - From the project folder run
livebook server start.livemd. This opens the navigation page where you can find the course reading material and associated exercises.
If you cannot see mermaid.js graphs, ensure your livebook version is correct.
See the full Beta Tester & Contributor Setup for comprehensive getting started and contribution instructions.
Students will be competent developers prepared to excel in the Elixir industry. They will have a solid grasp of Elixir fundamentals, Elixir project development, Phoenix project development, LiveView, and OTP. They will also have the researching and problem-solving skills necessary to expand their skill set and thrive throughout their career. Students will be capable of delivering high-quality, well-tested features to a production complexity codebase.
The curriculum is still a rough outline subject to change and feedback. see start.livemd for a full weekly and daily breakdown.
- Course Overview, Command Line, Git, Livebook, PATH
- Basics (Simple Types, Operators, Variables, Comments)
- Complex Types (atom, tuples, list, keyword list, map, mapset)
- Modules, Functions, Structs, Control Flow
- Problem Solving & Enumeration (ranges, map, filter, all, any, count, find, random)
- Comprehensions, Enum.reduce
- Built-In Modules (Map, Tuple, List, Date & Time)
- Guards, Pattern Matching
- String Manipulation (Regex, Charlist vs Strings)
- Polymorphism, Protocols & Behaviors
- Performance (Immutability, Streams, Lists Vs Tuples Vs Maps Vs Mapsets, Big O, Benchee, :timer) & Recursion
- File, .iex Scripts, Persistence, Data Validation (Ecto Changesets) (+Binary)
- Processes (Processes, Generic Server, Genserver, Agents, ETS)
- Mix Tooling (Credo, Dialyzer, Config, Deps, Documentation, ExUnit)
- Supervisor Basics and Fault Tolerance (+Task)
- BEAM
- Ecto & Database Basics
- APIs & Parsing JSON
- Networking Basics & Plug
- Macros and
use - Deploying Mix Project
- Phoenix Framework & Generators (+ Testing Patterns)
- HTML & CSS (+ Flex, Grid)
- Ecto & RDBMS & SQL & Seeding Data
- Tailwind
- UX/UI Design + Accessibility (ColorZilla, Axe, Figma)
- Phoenix Authentication & Permissions
- LiveView (+ Testing Patterns)
- JavaScript & JS Interoperability & AlpineJS
- PubSub & Channels
- GraphQL & Absinthe (+ Testing Patterns)
- TDD Techniques (Red Green Refactor), Code Clarity, Mix Testing Tools (--slowest, --stale, tags, Elixir Test extension)
- Metrics, Telemetry, Live Dashboard
- Factories & Mocks (ExMachina, Mox)
- Property Based Testing (Stream Data) + E2E Testing (Wallaby)
- Code Coverage, Github Actions & Hooks
- Software & Product Management (Agile, StandUps, Kanban)
- Architecture Design & Patterns (Diagrams, UML, CQRS/ES, Contexts, MVC)
- Advanced Livebook (Graphs, Tables, Connecting Projects)
- Collaborative GitHub Patterns (PRs, Forking, Cloning, Issues)
- Emailing & Swoosh
- Stripe
- Oban
- RabbitMQ
- Kafka
- Umbrella Projects
- Genserver Bottlenecks, Supervision Trees, Worker Pools, Tasks
- Nodes, Clustering