What is it?

The Evening School of Erlang is a series of Erlang classes designed to bring together developers interested in programming in Erlang and companies who are looking to recruit bright Erlang developers all across the U.S.

How does it work?

The Evening School of Erlang is starting on the 20th of February and consists of two- hour evening classes which are conducted twice a week (every Wednesday and Thursday) over a four week period from 6:30 - 8:30 PM. Some classes my run till 9pm. The classes will be held on the following dates in February: 20, 21, 27, 28, March 6, 7, 13, 14. The classes include exercises which allow participants to put the theory into practice and these are automatically tested and assessed using the Erlang e-learning feedback tool.

At the end of the four weeks, participants will be able to take the Erlang Foundation certification exam at no additional cost. This will validate to future employers their knowledge of the Erlang language.

The Teacher:

Juan Puig - Juan is a Software and Computer Engineer, specialized in designing and building Concurrent, Distributed, High-available and Fault-tolerant Systems. Proactive and positive engineer, loves to find the best solutions for new professional challenges. He has worked in four countries, delivered technical training and talked at universities and software meet-ups about Erlang and general fault-tolerant systems.

He is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area where he works for Brocade - an American multinational technology company specialized in data and storage networking products.