For the record: I’m not on meth! But I’m thick skinned too. For what it’s worth, I’m doing streaming of the same content at http://dailydrip.com and teaching Elm now too.

Hi there!
Well, I first subscribed to Learn Elixir TV to get an overview of the language. I’ve also read Programming Elixir and now I’m finishing Elixir in action as well. I prefer going into practical stuff as soon as possible so I’ve also subscribed to the Red:Four tutorial which is awesome.

I believe in learning by doing, so I built the Phoenix Trello tribute/clone and tutorials, which has been an awesome experience so far, now even more specially after seeing that many other people are using it to learn about Elixir/Phoenix. Thanks to everybody for the support by the way

Finally, I’m building my second tribute/clone of another great application I use everyday, and I’m putting in practice everything I’ve learned so far since I build Phoenix Trello

I am trying to learn Elixir without doing web programming. I am not a big fan of web frameworks and tend to avoid them, especially when I am just learning a new language or technology. So I am working through stuff without learning Phoenix and Ecto.

I have been doing the Exercism Elixir track. It’s good, but I am not sure if I will complete it. I am learning, but I am not that crazy about the use cases.

I am thinking of getting Red4 and I like what I see in Elixir in Action (anyone know why the Manning books are more expensive than the PragProg ones?).

I am feeling a little lost between the resources that are mostly syntax based and the ones (not enough of them) that are practical based. I prefer the latter.

My ultimate goal with Elixir is to write OTP Big Data apps (and/or encourage the community to do so) that rival those on the JVM like Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, etc. Also, I think we should take aim at Golang and see if Elixir/Erlang + BEAM is suited to their sweet spot of network services apps.