Learning Elixir in 2018

[markdev]

What are the best beginner resources for learning Elixir and OTP (not Phoenix) in 2018?

[AstonJ]

My current advice is most of what I have done myself

See my reviews in these threads for more info:

Programming Elixir (Pragprog)

https://imagery.pragprog.com/products/557/elixir16.jpg by Dave Thomas This book is the introduction to Elixir for experienced programmers, completely updated for Elixir 1.6 and beyond. Explore functional programming without the academic overtones (tell me about monads just one more time). Create concurrent applications, but get them right without all the locking and consistency headaches. Meet Elixir, a modern, functional, concurrent language built on the rock-solid Erlang VM. Elixir’s pragma…

Elixir In Action (Manning)

[image] by Saša Jurić Elixir in Action teaches you to apply the new Elixir programming language to practical problems associated with scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, and high availability. About the technology Elixir is a modern programming language that takes advantage of BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine, without the burden of Erlang’s complex syntax and conventions. Elixir gives you Ruby-like elegance with the power to develop bulletproof distributed server systems that can …

Elixir for Programmers (PragDave)

[image] You’re a programmer, so you don’t need spoon feeding with the conventional drivel about “this is an integer.” No. You need to know what’s different, and you want to know quickly. But you want more. True mastery of Elixir comes from understanding the underlying idioms: functional programming, transformations, concurrency, and application structure. You need to know the tools, such as IEx and mix. And you need to understand the frameworks, such as OTP and Phoenix. This course will get y…

And I’m currently reading:

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…

There are other great books and resources too, but I haven’t read them yet - but from everything I have read/done, the above is what I recommend so far (I expect the list to get quite a bit bigger )

[AlchemistCamp]

I’m doing all in my (part-time) power to make Alchemist Camp worthy of inclusion in lists such as this.

So far, over 70 free screencasts are up on YouTube (65 on the site with varying degrees of written material to go with them) and all in all it’s closing in on 40 hours of content.

I’m also working on some text-based tutorials that will be easier to produce and update, and some gamification features to help motivate learners.

The site is only a few months old and thus far hasn’t managed to get on any of the resource lists (like elixir-lang.org/learning, Awesome Elixir, or /r/elixir), but if anyone wants help figuring out deployment, working through one of the prag prog books, etc, ping me and I’ll try to help.

[OmanF]

Though all three materials listed here are excellent, and I make good (I hope) use of them, Elixir for Programmers (AKA “The Gnome School of Elixir”) is the one I find the most helpful.

The combination of (very well) narrated videos, accompanying texts and exercises, all building towards an actual project (which sound foolish but turns out to be quite an endeavour)… if you’re low on cash, start with that one (and Elixir docs for help with Elixir’s API).