dimitarvp
Curated book lists for different levels of experience?
I am short on free time lately but I’d suggest somebody make a curated list of Erlang/Elixir books sorted by expected reader level.
F.ex. books that intermingle both functional programming and Elixir can be a perfect entry point. And only after one consumes such a source should they go to a dedicated Phoenix or OTP book. IMO anyway.
Anybody else feels the same way about a curated list sorted per expected reader level?
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dimitarvp
These levels are way too generic. I’d suggest these:
- Doesn’t know programming.
- Knows imperative programming / OOP, but not FP.
- Knows FP, doesn’t know Elixir.
- Knows FP and Elixir but doesn’t know OTP.
- Knows FP, Elixir and OTP.
The last one would probably only need mentoring on things like Phoenix, Absinthe and other de-facto standard libs.
adrianrl
The thing is that everyone would have different opinions about when a book for beginner ends, and the level intermediate starts, same for intermediate and advanced.
IMO beginner is when you know nothing about functional programming or just have experience with a common OOP language, I think that we all could agree here. Intermediate would be where you start to learn common libraries like Phoenix, Nerves… and using others to extend them like Überauth, Comeonin… also it is a good point to learn the basics of Erlang. Last but not least, advanced, where you learn the rest of the language’s features, like metaprogramming, OTP, NIFs, toolkits like Absinthe and Erlang in depth.
I like the levels purposed by @dimitarvp but Erlang should be included too, when I was starting with Elixir I found this website very useful: https://startlearningelixir.com/
Lastly, I’m not trying to be disrespectful with authors for its work, but I personally don’t trust courses or books published by Packt or Udemy, I did have bad experiences I’m afraid.
AstonJ
Nice idea 
We sort of have something similar in our Resources Chat/Questions - Elixir Programming Language Forum section - where people say what their experience is and seek recommendations based on that.. so maybe that could be used as a starting point, or for a simpler version create a list of those threads per ‘experience type’.
Alternatively, we have start a number of threads such as:
- Which learning resources do you recommend for people new to programming who want to learn Elixir?
- Which learning resources do you recommend for people new to Elixir but not programming?
- Which learning resources do you recommend for people new to functional programming?
etc
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