Has anyone attended any of the Erlang Solutions training courses?

Which books have you tried? I found “Elixir in Action” to be the key to understanding a lot of more advanced Elixir/Erlang/OTP concepts.

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This site has an excellent elixir track with 150 challenges, the first 35 challenges contain references to relevant documentation. You can also ask for assistance from mentors, they often react within 12 hours. All with no costs!

Thank you @Rik I have started the tutorials again and indeed they are helpful.

I now have almost all books from Pragmatic Bookshelf. I think my problem is that I haven’t done anything real yet. I’ve only tried tutorials and books where most examples are not getting through at least for me. What’s missing here is start building real needed little things.

When I have finished the books Elixir in Action and Programming Elixir (after doing many exercises on exercism.org) I will move on to :

• Toy Robot - The Elixir Version [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]

• Build a Weather Station with Elixir and Nerves: Visualize Your Sensor Data with Phoenix and Grafana by Alexander Koutmos, Bruce A. Tate, Frank Hunleth

Meanwhile or after finishing those projects I will start with learning Ecto and Phoenix. I have tried to read more then one Elixir study book at a time but that does not work for me. I have learned to focus on one thing at a time otherwise nothing will finish.

I can also really recommend the Toy Robot Book, this was a lot of fun.

But also the video tutorial “Phoenix LiveView Tetris in Elixir“ from Groxio.

I am considering doing the elixir certification exams from erlang-solutions.

Does somebody have some expiriences with them?

Just wanted to drop an update after three years :). I still haven’t found an Elixir day job, but I think my current situation is close.

On how to learn, nothing beats building something useful. Not tutorials or example apps. Just find something that you or someone else needs, and build it. Of course, tutorials, courses, books, are still useful as a starting point. But what I had to find was the point where you stop reading and start building.

After all this time I have built the site of Greece |> Elixir (which is the Greek Elixir community I founded and leading). I have built a Nerves app that checks if my plants need watering. Built a Soccer Cafe app to use with my son. You gather around a soccer game that updates online, with Presence and a chat, and you chat about the game. My son can invite his friends to the party . I built an app to manage common charges for buildings that I am using for the building where my apartment is.

And now, I have the opportunity to build an internal integration platform using Elixir/Phoenix, for my day job! This is the closest to actually using Elixir day to day.

It goes without saying that a lot of this was also enabled by our LLM friends. So things might have changed a bit compared to when I was asking 3 years ago.