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Part 1. Work through the Control Structures lesson at Elixirschool.com. Make a transcript file as before. Only try those examples that use the iex> prompt.

Part 2.

For the functions developed in this part, use pattern matching on the parameters when you can. Write a script with alpha tests

1. Develop a set of functions to determine if a quadratic equation has 2, 1, or 0 solutions.The equation has 0 solutions if it is degenerate that is, if the first coefficient is 0. The equation has 1 solution if the equation has repeated roots (when the discriminant is 0). The equation has 2 solutions otherwise, but notice that the solutions are complex if the discriminant is negative. Example functions:
   • degenerate - takes a number, the first coefficient
   • quad_solutions - takes a tuple containing three numbers, the coefficients
   • discriminant - this you already have
2. You can combine the built-in data structures as in, for example, a list of maps:

   [%{:artist => "howling wolf"}, %{:artist => "three dog night"}]

   Write a function that takes a list such as the above and a map and returns a new list with the new playlist_entry added to the end.

3. In your script file, create a list containing at least 5 songs in a playlist. Each song is a map (call it playlist_entry, for example) with keys :artist, :title, and :duration. Have at least 2 songs by the same artist. Test your function with this as the starting point.

We'll be building more interesting examples with this notion of a playlist in future assignments.

• Hint: You can put any expression that can be converted to a string inside the #{…} used inside the string we send to IO.puts (or any string anywhere). This is called string interpolation. Example:

lst = ["one", 2 , "three"]

IO.puts "Here's the first entry: #{hd lst}"