Elixir For Beginners (Udemy/self-published)

I am severely, severely, tempted to open a restaurant and start serving some water with lemons, seeing how many willing customers there are

I’ll make a one week promotion with FREE water with lemons servings!
Then I will show everyone how popular my restaurant is, with so many customers!
After all, if 10 000 people enrolled, it must be good ney?
And oh… all the “I give them not just credit but my gratitude as well” reviews I will get!
After all, why would anyone write a bad review for a free serving?
I’m going to be such a popular cook! It’s going to be amazing

Here’s a sample of my work.
It’s going to be a course with 30 servings, one minute each. I hear students like it short and simple.

Loops with recursion.
loops in Elixir are differently from other languages. In JavaScript, one would write:

for(i = 0; i < my_array.length; i++) {
my_array[i] = my_array[i] * 2
}"

But in Elixir

defmodule EpicRec do
def print_it(msg, n) when n <= 1 do
IO.puts msg
end

def print_it(msg, n) do
IO.puts msg
print_it(msg, n - 1)
end
end

Don’t feel obligated, but I would appreciate it if you press the Like button for this free sample Thanks!

Is this case a restaurant is a pitiful analogy. The course was free.

It’s more equivalent with your neighbor who happens to run a restaurant offering you a hamburger with a smile at no cost… after which you proceed to write 100 some odd lines across multiple posts about how horrible it tasted with a 10 point bullet of everything he did wrong.

When someone asks you how good your hamburgers taste your answer is, “I can’t cook.”

As this is literally the first material I’ve found that goes into any level of detail with Elixir, I give them not just credit but my gratitude as well.

I’m sure he’s a very nice guy, and maybe cos it’s late here - but his voice is piercing and I couldn’t sit through much of that

Just out of interest, what’s your background?

Everyone has their heroes.
Mehran Sahami and Charles Severance for me
Look at this stuff

It’s so chicken so soupy smooth with candy nomnomnom

A refund doesn’t fix any problems.
Just got Programming Elixir 1.2 “To illustrate this and to lay the foundation for a lot of Elixir programming,
let’s start reprogramming your brain”, see this author has the right idea, I like him already, hopefully the execution is as good

I fear in your world we wouldn’t have seen brilliant screencasters like Ryan Bates - the guy’s a legend

I get what you’re saying when money is involved though (but nobody’s at risk with this Udemy course - they have 28 days to get a refund).

Dude, teaching is a huge responsibility.
People entrust you with their time and money, you must provide results for them.
This means devotion.
Devotion means getting experience.
Getting experience means spending a lot of time, a lot of time, on preparing material, finding people to review it, rinse and repeat.
After two, maybe three years, I “guess”, a responsible person can gain confidence and publish something. And that’s experience in “Transferring knowledge to other human beings”, not “Recording videos on the weekends with OBS, talking to a webcam reading documents, and oh I forgot to change the size of my Font, can everyone see this?!”.
I have a day job, in my spare time I’m learning programming, it’s absolutely impossible to also try and become a teacher.

When you visit a restaurant and order chicken soup from the menu, but they bring you a bowl of water with lemons, as a customer, you have the right to complain.
Just because you have complained, it doesn’t mean that you must open a restaurant and start cooking soup yourself.
That’s why you went to the restaurant in the first place.
The “open your own restaurant and become a cook” is the Linux community response to “my drivers are not working”.

Udemy is a restaurant. The author of this course is the cook. His soup is water with lemons in my opinion. I complained. I think this is reasonable. I also didn’t intend to harm the author of this course and did not post a review on Udemy, and will not do so.

Teaching is not a hobby, people’s time and money are not a Saturday joke to tell to friends.
I’ve been to the Ruby, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go, Dart, JS(eww), Autodesk Maya, Photoshop, CorelDraw, Audio & Video editing, PC Technician, restaurants and have eaten a lot of soups. I know damn well what chicken soup tastes like and what water with lemons tastes like.
For example, in the 3D world, you don’t go to the Digital Toutor’s restaurant, you go to The Gnomon Workshop’s restaurant, there be epic win chicken soup there.

Neither were many other great screen casters/teachers

You already have one advantage, you have a critical eye and a ‘high standard’. If it interests you, I’d say give it a go… you never know where it might lead

I liked this udemy course coz I was able to learn from it and I think that is what matters for me. Of course there are some things that are introduced in a shallow manner and I think it has it’s advantage coz it avoids overloading me with unnecessary concepts on the initial journey. The video helped me crave for more. Each one has a different learning style. This one though not the most ideal for me has been beneficial coz I learned and encouraged me to look for more. Besides this has been given free even for a limited time only. Thanks to the persons who made this possible. Peace everyone.

I’m not a teacher.

I found the content to be more than acceptable. There needs to be far more such content as all the YouTube videos on Elixir/Phoenix are currently nothing more than high level marketing fluff. This does absolutely nothing to get newbies started.

The only issue I have with the course is that the 2.5 hrs was broken up into 5-10 minute bites. This makes it rather frustrating. Would much prefer to digest it in one long video.

@Deithrian - Since you appear to have so many problems with the free course and claim to know how to do it properly… we’ll be waiting for your content. When can we expect it?