How have you been learning Elixir?

Started with Elixir in Action (but have a bunch of Erlang books that I’ve read in recent years). EIA is really excellent and practical.

Studying the Phoenix Trello tribute which looks quite well designed, superb learning tool.

What’s your background Paul?

I’m really looking forward to EIA. Unfortunately I don’t do so well reading code, much prefer to read books then dive in and start making something.

Hi AstonJ,

Have been building database backed webapps/apis professionally for about a decade now. No experience with Ruby or Rails, though. As for FP, Erlang/(Elixir) was my first functional language.

You will really enjoy working through EIA. I like it because it builds from one chapter to the next, focusing on understanding the core paradigms that make Elixir/OTP great. If I hadn’t read a number of Erlang books prior, I’d still have been comfortable learning Elixir/OTP from scratch just from EIA.

Nice

I’m finding it interesting chatting with people from different backgrounds. Generally in Ruby, most people know Ruby and the usual front-end suspects. It seems to be more varied in Elixir.

I’m also studying the Phoenix Trello tribute and following the associated blog series:

I’m planning to subscribe to the Learn Elixir TV screencasts.

Rob Conery recently released a multimedia Elixir tutorial called Red 4. I’d like to work through that one also if I can find time:
http://www.redfour.io/

I watched a few of Rob’s Pluralsight screencasts (NodeJS Testing Strategies and Building a Realtime Web App with MeteorJS) and really like his material.

Let us know what youthink about the redfour tutorial @MichaelC

I have bought the LearnElixir.TV course and it is very good value for money - I’ve only watched a few vids so far but it looks great. The only criticism I have is that they are (he talks) a bit fast, and could do with being a little slower. But that could just be me, lol.

I’ve been working through the Trello clone.

https://blog.diacode.com/trello-clone-with-phoenix-and-react-pt-1

Going to pick up the phoenix book soon.

I’m really hoping to start seeing some youtube video tutorials show up. Everything out there currently are just high level overviews. If Elixir/Phoenix wants wider adoption someone is going to need to hold us newbies by the hand.

You might want to watch this space

I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but I started work on a community-centered screencasting outfit last year but due to personal reasons had to put it on the back burner.

It was going to be a free/cheap (as in if you want to subscribe, you can) model with any profits going towards tech projects (after paying staff/expenses etc). When I first mentioned it, Matz (creator or Ruby) retweeted it and we had huge interest.

But yeah, we definitely need more video content.

Btw in case you haven’t heard of it, there’s also www.elixirsips.com

Every framework under the sun has a plethora of tutorials and “let’s make a xyz clone” youtube videos. That is, with the exception of Phoenix/Elixir. I don’t understand why that is. The conferences on youtube seemed to be chock full of people.

I’ve seen that and considered it, however the guy talks like he’s on meth. I got the impression too that some of the material is dated. The free example video discussing the Dynamo web framework for example.

I haven’t actually seen any Sips myself yet, but whoever presents video is bound to get some that love and some that hate their voice.

I dread to think what you would think of my voice

(I hate my voice - I think I sound a bit ‘dim’)

My poor Yeti - hasn’t seen any action yet!

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