I think this course is very good for begginers. I myself learned elixir and phoenix through this course. It covers many basic things to get started. It’s not that big of deal that it’s phoenix 1.2. The biggest change was in the file tree. If I were you I would also get the pragmatic bookshelf books.
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dokuzbir
Yes that is a problem, phoenix 1.2 but he added 1.3 section. There is just a few difference beetwen 1.3 and 1.2. For a beginner main problem is understanding core prensibles. Dave and progmatic studio’s courses focuse otp and elixir. Stephen grinder focuses phoenix.
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kokolegorille
Although I have a great respect for teacher, which taugh me a lot on React JS, I have to say I was not convinced by his course on Elixir/Phoenix bootcamp.
The main problem was the misuse of functional terminology, that showed he was more like discovering “at the same time”…
I watched PragDave course and for me he knows more about FP.
I didn’t watched the other courses, so I can’t tell…
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dokuzbir
yes exactly that is
But that is the perfect thing about that course. I started elixir with josh adams’ videos. i chose josh adams because he is experienced and there are alot videos belong to him. But i felt overwhelming with his videos. He is experienced about fp but i wasnt. There was a barrier and i started stephen grinder’s course.
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kokolegorille
I know the author puts a lot of efforts preparing his course, but it’s not like learning a new JS lib. You can’t understand FP in 3 months, it’s just too big change. Well, it’s just a personal opinion, of course.
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dokuzbir
Yes you are completely right. You are experienced developer you expect different things than a beginner from a course. In that course stephen didnt even touch OTP.
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asfand
Of course I want the course to be easy, but again I want to learn all the pieces which makes Elixir better than any other language used for Web Development like Ruby, Python etc. So in that regard I’ll need something easier, but still offering advanced topics, like OTP, mnesia etc.
That’s why I was comparing Dave Thomas and Clarks’ courses. (I read some reviews about Ludu course, but I don’t know how easy/hard, basic/advanced that is).
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asfand
I’m also planning to give the free lessons from both the courses a try, but Dave’s course doesn’t provide free lessons in an order, so I won’t be able to get an idea about how easier/harder the whole course is, although I got an idea from the free lessons and the titles of the paid lessons, that the course covers a lot of stuff.
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kokolegorille
We all have different technics and goals when learning. I started a year ago, but with a Rails background. And for me, it was important to understand the difference, because I didn’t wanted to redo in Phoenix what I could do with Rails.
So I started by learning OTP, much before Phoenix (and even Elixir) because it is (for me) the real promise I can get from the language.
And, as the best things are free, the videos that finally tilted me were Kent University Erlang master class. I know I mention these often, but it’s because I could understand the link between the code and the actor model.
Not to mention that teachers are great. And again, just my personal opinion 
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DevotionGeo
I found those three courses, Erlang Master Class 1, Erlang Master Class 2, and Erlang Master Class 3 through YouTube search, and so far they are my favorite for Erlang.
All the three playlists are available at their YouTube channel.
The second playlist is done by the creator of the Erlang Joe Armstrong himself.
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