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Can you recommend any learning materials that were particularly useful to you?

SmooL 6y ago
Honestly the docs themselves are excellent https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html
- s3cur3 6y ago
  It’s the only language I’ve used where just going step by step through the official docs was enough to pick up the language. Took me maybe a day and a half.
searchableguy 6y ago
The beam book: https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook
AlchemistCamp 6y ago
For me personally, Programming Elixir and Programming Phoenix, from the Pragmatic Bookshelf, were both very useful. Quite a few of my students have said great things about Phoenix in Action, from Manning, and it looks to me like a fantastic resource for beginners. Elixir in Action is also top-notch and will show you what's special about the BEAM.
- bigbassroller 6y ago
  To those out there learning from “Programming Phoenix”, although is the best resource for lay of the land of Phoenix, the content is getting out dated with the rise of auth generator and the context model has also changed a lil bit. It takes diligence in following along and referencing the documentation to not get stuck. Great book though.
  - categorybooks 6y ago
    What would you suggest as a more up-to-date alternative?
  - AlchemistCamp 6y ago
    Anything written after 1.3 is almost completely applicable today. The auth generator is just a new feature. Learning how the pieces work from the book is still worthwhile. My advice if you want to avoid confusion as you're learning is to just use the same version of Phoenix the book does! (1.4 in this case) After you go through it, you can follow the official upgrade guides in just a few minutes.
    - mercer 6y ago
      I'll add that learning how to roll your own auth with the book and /then/ using the auth generator is a great learning experience.
jspash 6y ago
Without a doubt, this was one of the best courses I've done in any language. https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootcamp-and-tutorial/ https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix...
atulatul 6y ago
Disclaimer: This is primarily about language... not BEAM as such. Also, links are inline. I liked the book Programming Elixir 1.6 By (Pragmatic) Dave Thomas. Solved the exercises. Did not quite find use for macros. And I have not done any production projects. The pragmatic studio has some courses for the space: elixir, OTP, LiveView, etc. and free tutorials. The quality is good. Simon Thomson's course on futurelearn was also good. https://pragmaticstudio.com/ https://pragmaticstudio.com/ and https://www.futurelearn.com/ https://www.futurelearn.com/ A recurrent problem for me though has been to write an application. I used to write java's petclinic/petstore application when learning a framework, library, etc. Have not been able to do so with some other ecosystems... perhaps laziness, perhaps have not been able to answer why. And languages in isolation have not clicked for me much apart from maybe making me think in different ways. Why does this Erlang/Elixir/BEAM interest me then? A colleague who talked highly of it... Then there's Joe, his talks, and Alan Kay's recommendation has Joe's thesis on recommended reading list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20653453 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20653453 There is also Erlang Masterclass series 1,2,3 starting here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR812eVbehlwEArT3Bv3UfcM9wR3AEZb5 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR812eVbehlwEArT3Bv3U...

Honestly the docs themselves are excellent https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html

s3cur3 6y ago
It’s the only language I’ve used where just going step by step through the official docs was enough to pick up the language. Took me maybe a day and a half.

searchableguy 6y ago

The beam book: https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook

AlchemistCamp 6y ago

For me personally, Programming Elixir and Programming Phoenix, from the Pragmatic Bookshelf, were both very useful. Quite a few of my students have said great things about Phoenix in Action, from Manning, and it looks to me like a fantastic resource for beginners. Elixir in Action is also top-notch and will show you what's special about the BEAM.

bigbassroller 6y ago
To those out there learning from “Programming Phoenix”, although is the best resource for lay of the land of Phoenix, the content is getting out dated with the rise of auth generator and the context model has also changed a lil bit. It takes diligence in following along and referencing the documentation to not get stuck. Great book though.
- categorybooks 6y ago
  What would you suggest as a more up-to-date alternative?
- AlchemistCamp 6y ago
  Anything written after 1.3 is almost completely applicable today. The auth generator is just a new feature. Learning how the pieces work from the book is still worthwhile. My advice if you want to avoid confusion as you're learning is to just use the same version of Phoenix the book does! (1.4 in this case) After you go through it, you can follow the official upgrade guides in just a few minutes.
  - mercer 6y ago
    I'll add that learning how to roll your own auth with the book and /then/ using the auth generator is a great learning experience.

jspash 6y ago

Without a doubt, this was one of the best courses I've done in any language. https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootcamp-and-tutorial/ https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix...

atulatul 6y ago

Disclaimer: This is primarily about language... not BEAM as such. Also, links are inline. I liked the book Programming Elixir 1.6 By (Pragmatic) Dave Thomas. Solved the exercises. Did not quite find use for macros. And I have not done any production projects. The pragmatic studio has some courses for the space: elixir, OTP, LiveView, etc. and free tutorials. The quality is good. Simon Thomson's course on futurelearn was also good. https://pragmaticstudio.com/ https://pragmaticstudio.com/ and https://www.futurelearn.com/ https://www.futurelearn.com/ A recurrent problem for me though has been to write an application. I used to write java's petclinic/petstore application when learning a framework, library, etc. Have not been able to do so with some other ecosystems... perhaps laziness, perhaps have not been able to answer why. And languages in isolation have not clicked for me much apart from maybe making me think in different ways. Why does this Erlang/Elixir/BEAM interest me then? A colleague who talked highly of it... Then there's Joe, his talks, and Alan Kay's recommendation has Joe's thesis on recommended reading list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20653453 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20653453 There is also Erlang Masterclass series 1,2,3 starting here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR812eVbehlwEArT3Bv3UfcM9wR3AEZb5 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR812eVbehlwEArT3Bv3U...