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What are the best resources to learn Elixir for a programmer? And what are you using?

by truth_ 5y ago

ddek 5y ago
I liked the book ‘Elixir in Action’. It shows some of the language then immediately jumps into building a way too overcomplicated program (a distributed TODO list) that nicely shows off the features of elixir. After that I just read some codebases. I find elixir codebases extraordinarily easy to read. The language does a great job of making ‘the good way’ also ‘the easy way’, and the linear nature of functional code is much clearer than the usual indirect dependency injected hell. Papercups is a fairly good starting point I think. I liked the livebook codebases too.
swhitf 5y ago
I learned using https://alchemist.camp/ https://alchemist.camp/. Some content is premium but the free stuff is very good if you don't want to commit.
atulatul 5y ago
I used Dave Thomas's Programming Elixir > 1.6 and can recommend it highly for learning the language. As others have mentioned on some other threads, learning about OTP, Genserver is really worthwhile. Apart from language, the book teaches a bit about that too. But maybe just enough. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DP8Y2GJ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DP8Y2GJ
aroccolli 5y ago
https://serokell.io/blog/learn-elixir https://serokell.io/blog/learn-elixir - I've made a guide to Elixir resources.
theagilecoder 5y ago
I learned the concepts from dave thomas's book and then drilled them into my mind using exercism.io
travisgriggs 5y ago
The Elixir-lang Slack channel. The Dave Thomas book. Lots of trial and error in iex. For me, I have to a meaningful thing to do with a language/platform to learn it. The To Do/hello world apps just do nothing for me.
Maultasche 5y ago
I've been writing a lot about Elixir as I've been learning it: https://inquisitivedeveloper.com/ https://inquisitivedeveloper.com/. The idea is for people to learn Elixir along with me as I learn it. It's not a quick start though: I really dig into how Elixir works and move fairly slowly. I've finished covering the language itself, and I'm about to move into the OTP functionality that's inherited from Erlang.
AlchemistCamp 5y ago
Elixir in Action is in a class by itself. I'd also recommend Phoenix in Action as a nice quick start and the many, many Elixir books from Pragmatic Bookshelf. I've read almost all of them and all of them are well-written and well-edited. Also, the official docs and guides are fantastic once you have your bearings.

What are the best resources to learn Elixir for a programmer? And what are you using?

by truth_ 5y ago

What are the best resources to learn Elixir for a programmer? And what are you using?

ddek 5y ago

I liked the book ‘Elixir in Action’. It shows some of the language then immediately jumps into building a way too overcomplicated program (a distributed TODO list) that nicely shows off the features of elixir. After that I just read some codebases. I find elixir codebases extraordinarily easy to read. The language does a great job of making ‘the good way’ also ‘the easy way’, and the linear nature of functional code is much clearer than the usual indirect dependency injected hell. Papercups is a fairly good starting point I think. I liked the livebook codebases too.

swhitf 5y ago

I learned using https://alchemist.camp/ https://alchemist.camp/. Some content is premium but the free stuff is very good if you don't want to commit.

atulatul 5y ago

I used Dave Thomas's Programming Elixir > 1.6 and can recommend it highly for learning the language. As others have mentioned on some other threads, learning about OTP, Genserver is really worthwhile. Apart from language, the book teaches a bit about that too. But maybe just enough. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DP8Y2GJ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DP8Y2GJ

aroccolli 5y ago

https://serokell.io/blog/learn-elixir https://serokell.io/blog/learn-elixir - I've made a guide to Elixir resources.

theagilecoder 5y ago

I learned the concepts from dave thomas's book and then drilled them into my mind using exercism.io

travisgriggs 5y ago

The Elixir-lang Slack channel. The Dave Thomas book. Lots of trial and error in iex. For me, I have to a meaningful thing to do with a language/platform to learn it. The To Do/hello world apps just do nothing for me.

Maultasche 5y ago

I've been writing a lot about Elixir as I've been learning it: https://inquisitivedeveloper.com/ https://inquisitivedeveloper.com/. The idea is for people to learn Elixir along with me as I learn it. It's not a quick start though: I really dig into how Elixir works and move fairly slowly. I've finished covering the language itself, and I'm about to move into the OTP functionality that's inherited from Erlang.

AlchemistCamp 5y ago

Elixir in Action is in a class by itself. I'd also recommend Phoenix in Action as a nice quick start and the many, many Elixir books from Pragmatic Bookshelf. I've read almost all of them and all of them are well-written and well-edited. Also, the official docs and guides are fantastic once you have your bearings.