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February 2026 · 8 episodes

Herb Wars: Building a CLI Game in Elixir

Learn Elixir by building a terminal-based trading game

1. Your First Day with Elixir: Building Something Beautiful from Scratch 2. Immutability Isn't Scary: Building Your First Elixir Data Structures 3. Map, Filter, Reduce: The Enum Module is Your New Best Friend 4. Organizing Your Elixir Code: Modules, Separation, and the Art of Not Making a Mess 5. Recursion Without the Headache: Managing Game State in Elixir 6. Time Travel Debugging: Why Immutable State is a Superpower 7. Game Mechanics: Random Events and Herb Effects 8. From Hardcoded to Data-Driven: Loading YAML in Elixir