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 Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward