First chapter of my small book about Elixir

Hi Elomar,

Of course

I’ve moved this thread to the Projects section for you - feel free to rename it/edit the post accordingly

The book sounds interesting, can’t wait to hear about it!

Thank you, Aston!

I’ll rename and edit the post to include the link to the first chapter. And in the future, I’ll post the following chapters. I hope you like it!

First off, thank you for sharing your work with the community. Seriously that is awesome

But your link is unreadable on mobile.

Sorry about that. I’m using Droplr to host the chapter file, and as it’s a PDF file, Droplr embeds a PDF reader. But as you’ve said, it doesn’t work that well on mobile. I think it’s better if you download the PDF file and read it on a proper mobile PDF reader.

Even not on mobile but on desktop chrome and the chapter text is invisible until I highlight it… ^.^;
A pure PDF would probably be better instead of an embedded viewer, I think every common browser has a built in PDF reader anyway.

On my phone I clicked on ‘download’ and it opened as a PDF file

Would be cool to have it as a .mobi and .epub

The intro sounds good, although much of what is already covered in other books - will your book be about something specific? If you need inspiration, check out this thread:

Even not on mobile but on desktop chrome and the chapter text is invisible until I highlight it… ^.^;
A pure PDF would probably be better instead of an embedded viewer, I think every common browser has a built in PDF reader anyway.

To be honest with you, I didn’t know Droplr would embed that PDF reader. My goal was to use Droplr just as a host, so people can download the file and read it in proper PDF reader.

Would be cool to have it as a .mobi and .epub

The final version of the book will be on .pdf, .mobi, and .epub. But I’ll try to provide the 3 file formats for the following chapters as well.

The intro sounds good, although much of what is already covered in other books - will your book be about something specific? If you need inspiration, check out this thread:

My goal for this book is to teach the basic concepts of Elixir. I know there’s a lot of books for beginners, but as I’m not an experienced writer, I’ve decided to start with a project that I know I can finish.

But I’m trying to use a different approach. The book is more focused on people who already know how to program. However, the biggest difference will be its length. I’m limiting myself to 100 pages, so I can focus on what it’s really important. That’s why the book is called 100 Pages of Elixir. And it’s open source, so anyone will be able to read for free on GitHub, and even build it in different file formats.

I’m also planning to write other books after this. They’ll cover more advanced aspects of Elixir, and the thread you’ve just linked will be really helpful for them.

But don’t get me wrong, I get your point, and I completely agree with it. The community needs more advanced books. But as this is my first book, I don’t feel comfortable enough to write about advanced topics.

Hi @erlomarns,
Since you are going to make the book opensource, why don’t you share it on Github, or a similar platform, that way people can contribute to it.
I just skimmed your pdf, and by the look of it, it is something you could write in MarkDown (if that’s not the format you are already using).
That way it will be really easy for contributors to engage in.

Keep up the spirit.

ReST is likely better as it has a lot more formatting options than markdown while having a similarish syntax.

Though then again nothing beats LaTeX for document configureability. ^.^