I have $150, which courses/books may I buy to learn Phoenix?

[AstonJ]

I have currently done and highly recommend the following:

Programming Elixir (Pragprog)

EIA is due to be updated 2nd quarter of this year so I would wait for the update and do the course first

Elixir In Action (Manning)

Just finished this book - loved it! I’ve been reading it concurrently with Programming Elixir I read 50% of Programming Elixir first (the language bits) and then jumped to Elixir in Action because it covers much of the same ground on the language side of things. This suited me perfectly because it saved me having to write notes (I find going over things is a great way to ‘repeat and reinforce’ what I’ve learnt). These two books are a fantastic combo if this is your preferred learning styl…

Elixir for Programmers (PragDave)

Whoo hoo!! I’ve finished it! Loved it! Here’s… ###My review If you’ve been following the forum lately, you’ll probably have noticed a number of threads I’ve started that were inspired by this course. For someone like me, who’s transitioning from the old ‘monolith’ way of doing things, this course is simply invaluable. It contains so, so many eye openers. I’ve actually lost cout of the number of times I was (very pleasantly) surprised by what Dave had to say - and I think you will be too. …

And I’ve just started:

Learn Functional Programming with Elixir (Pragprog)

[image] by Ulisses Almeida Elixir’s straightforward syntax and this guided tour give you a clean, simple path to learn modern functional programming techniques. No previous functional programming experience required! This book walks you through the right concepts at the right pace, as you explore immutable values and explicit data transformation, functions, modules, recursive functions, pattern matching, high-order functions, polymorphism, and failure handling, all while avoiding side effect…

Haven’t read enough of it to recommend it is read before/after the others yet though.

@asfand

Is Elm as easy as Elixir? Will this bundle (of 3 courses) make me produtive enough to create a some real web application in Elixir and Elm?

Do you want to make a single page app? If not you may not need to learn Elm.

With regards to Phoenix, you’ll almost certainly want to read:

Programming Phoenix (Pragprog)

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(I haven’t read it myself yet)