Introducing Erlang, 2nd Edition

Table of contents

1. Preface
   1. Who This Book Is For
   2. Who This Book Is Not For
   3. What This Book Will Do For You
   4. How This Book Works
   5. Etudes for Erlang
   6. Why I Wrote This Book
   7. Other Resources
   8. Are You Sure You Want Erlang?
   9. Erlang Will Change You
   10. Conventions Used in This Book
   11. A Note on Erlang Syntax
   12. Using Code Examples
   13. Help This Book Grow
   14. Please Use It For Good
   15. O’Reilly Safari
   16. How to Contact Us
   17. Acknowledgments
2. 1. Getting Comfortable
   1. Installation
   2. Firing It Up
   3. First Steps: The Shell
      1. Moving through Text
      2. Moving through History
      3. Moving through Files
   4. Doing Something
   5. Calling Functions
   6. Numbers in Erlang
   7. Working with Variables in the Shell
      1. Seeing Your Bound Variables
      2. Clearing Bound Variables in the Shell
3. 2. Functions and Modules
   1. Fun with fun
   2. Defining Modules
      1. From Module to fun
      2. Functions and Variable Scope
      3. Module Directives
   3. Documenting Code
      1. Documenting Modules
      2. Documenting Functions
      3. Documenting Your Application
4. 3. Atoms, Tuples, and Pattern Matching
   1. Atoms
   2. Pattern Matching with Atoms
   3. Atomic Booleans
   4. Guards
   5. Underscoring That You Don’t Care
   6. Adding Structure: Tuples
      1. Pattern Matching with Tuples
      2. Processing Tuples
5. 4. Logic and Recursion
   1. Logic Inside of Functions
      1. Evaluating Cases
      2. If This, Then That
      3. Variable Assignment in case and if Constructs
   2. The Gentlest Side Effect: io:format
   3. Simple Recursion
      1. Counting Down
      2. Counting Up
      3. Recursing with Return Values
6. 5. Communicating with Humans
   1. Strings
   2. Asking Users for Information
      1. Gathering Terms
      2. Gathering Characters
      3. Reading Lines of Text
7. 6. Lists
   1. List Basics
   2. Splitting Lists into Heads and Tails
   3. Processing List Content
   4. Creating Lists with Heads and Tails
   5. Mixing Lists and Tuples
   6. Building a List of Lists
8. 7. Higher-Order Functions and List Comprehensions
   1. Simple Higher-Order Functions
   2. Creating New Lists with Higher-Order Functions
      1. Reporting on a List
      2. Running List Values Through a Function
      3. Filtering List Values
   3. Beyond List Comprehensions
      1. Testing Lists
      2. Splitting Lists
      3. Folding Lists
9. 8. Playing with Processes
   1. The Shell Is a Process
   2. Spawning Processes from Modules
   3. Lightweight Processes
   4. Registering a Process
   5. When Processes Break
   6. Processes Talking Amongst Themselves
   7. Watching Your Processes
   8. Breaking Things and Linking Processes
10. 9. Exceptions, Errors, and Debugging
    1. Flavors of Errors
    2. Catching Runtime Errors as They Happen
    3. Raising Exceptions with throw
    4. Logging Progress and Failure
    5. Debugging through a GUI
    6. Tracing Messages
    7. Watching Function Calls
11. 10. Storing Structured Data
    1. Mapping Your Data
    2. From Tuples to Records
       1. Setting Up Records
       2. Creating and Reading Records
       3. Using Records in Functions and Modules
    3. Storing Records in Erlang Term Storage
       1. Creating and Populating a Table
       2. Simple Queries
       3. A Key Feature: Overwriting Values
       4. ETS Tables and Processes
       5. Next Steps
    4. Storing Records in Mnesia
       1. Starting up Mnesia
       2. Creating Tables
       3. Reading Data
       4. Query List Comprehensions
12. 11. Getting Started with OTP
    1. The Origins of OTP
    2. Creating Services with gen_server
    3. A Simple Supervisor
    4. Packaging an Application
13. 12. Next Steps Through Erlang
    1. Moving Beyond the Erlang Shell
    2. Distributed Computing
    3. Processing Binary Data
    4. Input and Output
    5. Testing, Analyzing, and Refactoring
    6. Networking and the Web
    7. Data Storage
    8. Extending Erlang
    9. Languages Built on Erlang
    10. Community
    11. Sharing the Gospel of Erlang
14. A. An Erlang Parts Catalog
    1. Shell Commands
    2. Reserved Words
    3. Operators
    4. Guard Components
    5. Common Functions
    6. Strings and Formatting
    7. Data Types for Documentation and Analysis
15. B. OTP Templates
16. Index