Roberto Aloi
Creator of Erlang e-learning and tryerlang.org
University of Kent/Erlang Solutions
Roberto Aloi joined the Erlang world in 2007, when he took part to the international competition of robotics "Eurobot" together with other colleagues at the University of Catania. In 2008 he obtained his Masters' Degree in Computer Engineering and he then moved to London, where he started working as a technical consultant and a trainer for Erlang Solutions. He's best known in the Erlang community to be the author of tryerlang.org, a web application which allows you to experience the power of Erlang in the browser. Lately he has been working on an Erlang e-learning platform as part of a "KTP" (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) scheme, a UK-government funded project conducted in conjunction with University of Kent and aimed at bringing the face-to-fact training offering of Erlang Solutions to the online world.
Twitter: @robertoaloi
Twitter: @robertoaloi
Roberto's blog: roberto-aloi.com
Roberto Aloi is Teaching the Following Courses
Target Audience: Software Developers
Prerequisites: Good programming skills in another language
Objectives:
• Understanding of the basics of Erlang.
• Read/Write/Design Erlang Programs.
• Good knowledge of the development environment and tools.
• Provides basics needed to attend the Advanced Erlang/OTP course
Goal: Attend the Advanced Erlang/OTP course and eventually pass the Erlang certification exam.
Duration: Three days.
Registration: 08:30 on 10 June 2013.
Description: The course contains all the Erlang basics such as sequential and concurrent programming, along side error handling. The Erlang development environment is presented, with a special emphasis on the Erlang mode for Emacs alongside the major debugging tools. Good and bad programming practices are discussed, as are tools used to profile the system. OTP design principles and concepts are sneaked into the material as well as the exercises.
Prerequisites: Good programming skills in another language
Objectives:
• Understanding of the basics of Erlang.
• Read/Write/Design Erlang Programs.
• Good knowledge of the development environment and tools.
• Provides basics needed to attend the Advanced Erlang/OTP course
Goal: Attend the Advanced Erlang/OTP course and eventually pass the Erlang certification exam.
Duration: Three days.
Registration: 08:30 on 10 June 2013.
Description: The course contains all the Erlang basics such as sequential and concurrent programming, along side error handling. The Erlang development environment is presented, with a special emphasis on the Erlang mode for Emacs alongside the major debugging tools. Good and bad programming practices are discussed, as are tools used to profile the system. OTP design principles and concepts are sneaked into the material as well as the exercises.