Great job! Thanks for writing up and creating the book to share with the community. Is it alright if I post some feedback here?

Tip #7

On Tip #7 you may want to include some other common "type checking" guards related to strings like is_binary and is_bitstring?

The Kernel section of the Elixir docs should have a more complete list of guards: hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kernel.html

Tip #11

You may want to consider including List.first() in addition to hd()? The key difference is how they handle an empty list.

• List.first([]) will return nil
• hd([]) will raise an ArgumentError

Tip #56

Another great tip. Have you considering including Enum.into/2 as well? It's handy to convert things between lists of tuples, keyword lists, and maps:

[{:a, "Jane"}, {:b, "John"}, {:z, "Peter"}] |> Enum.into(%{})

It also works the for converting maps into keyword lists using |> Enum.into([])

Tip 87

Appears to be a minor typo, scape should probably be escape?

Tip Suggestions

Two of my favorite standard library functions are Kernel.get_in/2 and Kernel.put_in/2.

When I was new to Elixir I remember writing my own recursive get and put functions until someone pointed out these built-ins.

Summary

Great work and a great read! Thanks for putting this together. I definitely learned some new things along the way. Hope the feedback I posted above comes across as intended - supportive with positive intent. You and this work is appreciated 🎉