Starting 3 months of Erlang/Elixir on Monday!

[sotojuan]

On Monday I’ll start my 12-week batch at the Recurse Center. I’m very lucky and happy that I get to work on whatever I want for such a long time, and I’ve chosen Erlang and Elixir because I want to further my understanding of functional distributed programming—I can’t think of any better languages to learn for that.

One of the main things Recurse likes to stress is that you should understand all abstractions deeply—meaning I don’t want to limit my knowledge of Elixir to mix.phoenix new. That brings in the topic for this thread: What resources have you used to learn Erlang/Elixir/OTP deeply?

I know of most of the books, but maybe a blog post or a project that you wrote (maybe I’ll write a bit torrent client!) that helped.

Sorry for the rambling, just wanna do cool stuff!

[AstonJ]

Nice one let us know how you get on.

Our current list of books is here: Elixir Books

And you may also want to look at:

When learning, what order of books did you start with?

So, I’ve just finished Introducing Elixir. I did skip the last chapter on Using macros to extend Elixir as I will get to that when I get a good grip on Elixir and OTP. Now, I recently bought Dave Thomas’ ebook Elixir Programming 1.2. Should I go into that next or maybe Elixir in Action? Also, how important is it to learn Erlang at this point? Should I wait till I have a better grasp on Elixir? I did look at Erlang in the past and boy did I hate all the boilerplate. After being spoiled with Eli…

and

How have you been learning Elixir?

What’s been working well for you? (We also have a How have you been learning Phoenix thread.)

In fact the whole section might be worth a browse:

https://elixirforum.com/c/learning-elixir?order=posts

With regards to deeper understanding of the topics, hopefully some of our members will give you some tips in this thread