Erlang

Previous years we have been using Erlang as the programming language of choice. We are now switching to Elixir but we keep this information for a while for older students.

Erlang is installed on the student computers but it is easy to install it on your own laptop. The easiest way is to use the packages provided by Erlang Solutions, their packages are more up to date than your regular (Ubuntu) repository. The package from Erlang Solutions also include the wx widget framework that you need for the gui parts in some assignments.

• Erlang Solutions 

The Erlang system does not include an IDE so you need to use a seprate development environment. You can use Eclipse but I use Emacs as my editor. The nice thing about using Erlang is that you can switch easily between writing your report in LaTex and running experiments in Erlang.

Introduction

During the first two weeks there will be teaching assistants that will help you getting started. Once you have the first hello-world up and running you can start with the following tasks.

• introduction.pdf

Resources

Besides the course book there are several good resources that are available online:

• Programming Erlang - more advanced
• Learn you some Erlang for the greater of good  - a very good introduction
• Erlang Documentation - some good links and and the first part of the course book