26: Elixir in Higher Ed with Jonathan Allen

We talk with Jonathan Allen, an instructor at a Utah college, who taught Elixir to his Distributed Computing students. He tells how he got Elixir into the classroom, what the students loved, what was hard, and how we in the professional community can influence Elixir in education!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/26

Elixir Community News

• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1334549051296112641 – Dashbit shuts down Bytepack - Twitter thread with announcement and discussion


• https://github.com/dashbitco/bytepack_archive – Open-source project


• https://www.erlef.org/


• https://elixirforum.com/t/nerves-development-environment-with-docker-and-vs-code/35973 – Nerves development environment with Docker (and VS Code)


• https://github.com/elixir-circuits/circuits_quickstart – Elixir Circuits quickstart firmware


• https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix/status/1334900736312958980 – Aaron Renner (@bayfieldcoder) added as a new core developer on the Phoenix project


• https://github.com/aaronrenner/phx_gen_auth – Phoenix Gen Auth package


• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4070 – Phoenix View is being extracted from Phoenix itself


• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_view – New PhoenixView project


• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4055 – Ecto.Enum support added to Phoenix generators


• https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/011-new-ecto-features-in-3-5-with-mike-binns/ – Discussion with Mike Binns about Ecto.Enum

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

• https://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks/ – Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book


• https://thinkingelixir.com/available-courses/ – Thinking Elixir courses the students used


• https://grox.io/language/elixir/course


• https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-second-edition – Elixir in Action book


• https://github.com/cabbage-ex/gherkin

Guest Information

• [email protected] - Jonathan's Email

Find us online

• Message the show - @ThinkingElixir


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• Mark Ericksen - @brainlid


• David Bernheisel - @bernheisel


• Cade Ward - @cadebward