Advanced Elixir and OTP (Self-published / Packt)

Alright, here goes. I thought I couldn’t go wrong for €5,20 - so I bought the package.

The average video has a length of 4-5 minutes, which is OK for courses, but not if you only have 19 videos with at least a minute of introduction for every video. Very few examples are given with little edge cases, best practices or important considerations.

Having that said, OTP is covered - it’s basically what’s on the elixir-lang website. But less. Making a card deck shuffler is not what I would’ve expected from a course that is advertising “illustrative examples to build scalable applications”.
I didn’t mention monitoring is not covered, despite that being mentioned in the pitch as well.

In short: not even worthy of the title ‘beginner course’ given how little content it has. It could somewhat be expected given the price. If it shoots up to its full price (a staggering €144) one could be glad if this post was read prior to clicking the ‘order’ button.

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