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 show@thinkingelixir.com

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

jallen@snow.edu - Jonathan's Email

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26: Elixir in Higher Ed with Jonathan Allen

Thinking Elixir Podcast

26: Elixir in Higher Ed with Jonathan Allen