Good suggestion. I’ve watched a couple, and in a way it’s kind of encouraging to see that even “programming heroes” like Jose must ease stepwise towards a solution. Just like the rest of us.
crispinb
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w0rd-driven
Elixir koans use tests to run through concepts like sigils, strings, or tasks. It has the left hand side of a match and the right hand side is usually ___ and looking for you to fill in the blank to make the test pass. You move through each test and each section until you’re done and all the tests pass.
It’s less work than Exercism as you’re just filling in blanks. The compiler errors can sometimes give you the exact answer. I find it more useful than just the docs because I’m doing something to reinforce the learning, even if it’s trivial.
Koans from a programming perspective are typically language agnostic so if you’re not familiar with them I can understand how the website and GitHub doesn’t explain much. Not all koans work this way exactly but they’re intended to be this lightweight.
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w0rd-driven
Exercism and specifically the mentoring portion is directly responsible for my ability to comprehend Elixir code when I struggled for months or possibly years learning on my own. I cannot recommend it enough.
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crispinb
As an aside, it would be a fun learning project to put together a web app presenting the koans. Or it might be possible to do something with Livebook.
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w0rd-driven
It would be useful to try both I think. There is something to the existing workflow though where you essentially run a watcher and change any file you want. Livebook would be much more approachable through an instance on Fly.io as it doesn’t require running it locally or through Docker. Elixir is much easier to install now but that can be a huge barrier to entry for some people. I feel like that idea is definitely worth pursuing.
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Sebb
Indeed, koans in a livebook would be nice. But disqualifies for OP for reasons of webstuff.
But one could put together the idea of text-adventure and interactive koans to some saga of a cruel Elixir-riddler-magician’s dungeon. 
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crispinb
I wasn’t suggesting it for the OP - it was just an aside prompted by the OP mentioning the original koans being a bit opaque, which I can understand for a beginner. A livebook or unique web app presenting the koans could be more approachable for many. I might have a crack at it myself.
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SunPoke04
Yea, most of the things sent here are way too hard for me.
Kinda not pretending to? I’m not gonna be good anyways.
I don’t have the money, sorry.
I try to read it, I just don’t understand it.
You don’t know about me, but I’ve learning all things people said me to learn. Regex, common languages, etc.
You guys did send hard things, lol.But I’m wanting a thing to test what I’ve learned at the basics because that’s what I did in other languages.
I don’t even know what I ate for breakfast…
I’m not that picky, it was just too hard for me. I’ve already done a text-based game, in Command Line.
What’s an “inventory system”?
I just don’t want to use web at all. If it’s CLI it’s ok.
I just don’t understand it, sorry.
Advent of code is too hard for me, I could only do 1 and 2, the rest I can’t even understand the questions. Even if watch it, I wouldn’t understand what he’s doing or what I’m supposed to do.
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