AstonJ
How have you been learning Elixir & Phoenix? (2017 Edition!)
It’s been a while since we asked this - I’m sure others (especially newcomers to the language) will be interested to hear how you’ve all been learning (or learnt!) Elixir & Phoenix.
Please let us know what worked well for you too!
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AstonJ
To add my own account, well, funnily enough, I had actually put my learning on hold for a year… to set the forum up 
Now that I’m back into it, I’ve read Programming Elixir (50% of it) then Elixir in Action (all of it) then the remainder of Programming Elixir. Both awesome books and I highly recommend this ‘concurrent’ way of learning (look here and here for my reviews of each and details why I prefer this way of learning).
I’ve now started PragDave’s new online course which I am loving as well. I’ve learnt so much through this course and I’m only 31/86 the way through.
After this I’m not sure whether I will start reading Programming Phoenix (quite possibly if it’s been updated for Phoenix 1.3) or I might get started on my first Phoenix app. It depends how confident I feel after Dave’s course.
I’ve also bought (or will probably get) most of the other books and courses too and hope to go through them at some stage… but I’ll post updates as and when I do 
(I will probably read them in order of whichever is the most up-to-date at the time).
maqbool
Currently i’m reading Phoenix Inside Out series written by @shankardevy i’m having really great experience so far for learning phoenix, ecto etc…
apart from that there is one book called “garuda” where you can learn how to build entire web framework from scratch using Cowboy as the only external dependency.
andrejsm
It was enough for me to read Programming Elixir and be familiar with the syntax. It took me a couple of days to read it through and start developing production ready website. Must note I didn’t discover Elixir through Ruby and I don’t have any experience with it. I was mainly JS developer with some PHP. But I already was into functional programming with JS. At the time I discovered the Elixir and Phoenix framework I was developing a website on Meteor. Thanks to the Meteor community, I found out about the Phoenix framework and Elixir. And I got hooked by Phoenix promises. So I read the afore mentioned book along with Programming Phoenix and in 2 weeks I started to rewrite Meteor project into Phoenix framework. I started with umbrella project right away and I’m very happy with that. I really enjoy working with Elixir.
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