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For anyone looking to learn more about Elixir/Erlang, here's a dump of links that I posted recently to the local Atlanta Elixir Meetup group. Roughly in the or

by dpeck 12y ago

For anyone looking to learn more about Elixir/Erlang, here's a dump of links that I posted recently to the local Atlanta Elixir Meetup group. Roughly in the order I'd recommend consuming them. Dave Thomas - Power of Erlang, Joy of Ruby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lww1aZ-ldz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lww1aZ-ldz0 Dave Thomas Elixirconf Keynote - Think Different- http://www.confreaks.com/videos/4119-elixirconf2014-opening-keynote-think-different http://www.confreaks.com/videos/4119-elixirconf2014-opening-... elixir-lang.org tutorial - http://elixir-lang.org/getting_started/1.html http://elixir-lang.org/getting_started/1.html Programming Elixir - https://pragprog.com/book/elixir/programming-elixir https://pragprog.com/book/elixir/programming-elixir Awesome Elixir - Curated list of great libraries - https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir Elixir In Action - http://www.manning.com/juric/ http://www.manning.com/juric/ Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good - http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ Erlang and OTP In Action - http://www.manning.com/logan/ http://www.manning.com/logan/ I haven't had a chance to read McCords new book, but having read his code and interacted with him a fair bit in #elixir-lang the last few months I can only assume I'll be adding it to the bottom of this list as an important intermediary step to becoming proficient in Elixir along with learning OTP.

bphogan 12y ago
This is a great list. I appreciate this. I have to add that your last entries are really important. Elixir is great, but I'm finding more and more that I have to dig into Erlang to do many, many things, because Elixir doesn't have that many libraries yet. Things like basic hashing have to be done using Erlang, so knowing the Erlang standard library seems to be pretty important right now. And yea, you're not going very far without digging into OTP, and Martin Logan's book is pretty excellent. Great entry on this list.
- bradfordarner 12y ago
  I agree with you so much. I find myself digging into Erlang docs more and more. That being said, I think there needs to be a communal effort to improve Erlang documentation. It is very terse. One of the points brought up in Garret Smiths talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MvKLOecT1I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MvKLOecT1I
- dpeck 12y ago
  Agree completely. For me its all about OTP, thats the difference maker with Elixir/Erlang, without that its just another functional language, with it is an incredibly powerful tool/framework for building impressive distributed fault tolerant systems.
- adamkittelson 12y ago
  A lot of that is by design. It's my understanding that they made the decision not to wrap erlang standard libraries just for the sake of wrapping them, because the erlang standard libaries work just fine when called from elixir. If something needed to be wrapped to make it play more nicely with elixir, for example to change argument order to better suit elixir's |> operator, or if there were other real benefits to wrapping an erlang library, then they might wrap it. Otherwise if the erlang library is good just use the erlang library.
  - bphogan 12y ago
    Yea, that's what I figured. But I don't like it so much. I tend to end up wrapping it myself just because I like piping with |>. But my main point was that when I started, I could just look to one source for language docs. But as I dug in, I realized that to do a lot of things, I needed to look at Erlang too. And then I realized I had to understand it. It's not bad, it's just a thing that makes learning the awesome language a lot more difficult.
kungfooguru 12y ago
Also checkout How I Start Elixir http://howistart.org/posts/elixir/1 http://howistart.org/posts/elixir/1 and Erlang http://howistart.org/posts/erlang/1 http://howistart.org/posts/erlang/1
mseepgood 12y ago
Erlang in Anger (Frank Herbert): http://www.erlang-in-anger.com http://www.erlang-in-anger.com
- dpeck 12y ago
  yeah, I'm sure thats a good addition, I've skimmed it and it's on my list to actually read.
- unvs 12y ago
  *Fred Hebert
  - mVChr 12y ago
    Yeah, otherwise it would be http://www.the-erlang-must-flow.com/ http://www.the-erlang-must-flow.com/
- pselbert 12y ago
  Thanks for bringing this up. I've seen and heard it mentioned before and never took the time to seek it out.
AnkhMorporkian 12y ago
If I may, I feel that there's a better version of the first video. The version you linked suffers from terrible framing where you can't see a single line of code he writes. This video has a much better view, but unfortunately has awful sound. For me though, code is more important than sound quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQwEmdOH-GM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQwEmdOH-GM
- dpeck 12y ago
  yeah, I found that one, but I couldn't deal with the sound and I felt that the videos were more about getting the general idea of Elixir and understanding some of the things you could do with it in an infotainment way. I know were you're coming from though, its a really good preso with surprisingly bad recordings.
bentanweihao 12y ago
Awesome list! I also did two presentations at RedDotRubyConf 2014 and RubyConf 2014 on Elixir: Rubyists! Have a sip of Elixir – http://www.confreaks.com/videos/5078-RubyConf2014-rubyists-have-a-sip-of-elixir http://www.confreaks.com/videos/5078-RubyConf2014-rubyists-h... Ruby + Elixir – Polyglot FTW! – http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3845-rdrc2014-ruby-elixir-polyglotting-ftw http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3845-rdrc2014-ruby-elixir-po... Also, I'm writing a book on Elixir – http://www.exotpbook.com http://www.exotpbook.com Finally, I've done a few posts of Elixir – http://benjamintan.io/blog/tags/elixir/ http://benjamintan.io/blog/tags/elixir/

by dpeck 12y ago

bphogan 12y ago

This is a great list. I appreciate this. I have to add that your last entries are really important. Elixir is great, but I'm finding more and more that I have to dig into Erlang to do many, many things, because Elixir doesn't have that many libraries yet. Things like basic hashing have to be done using Erlang, so knowing the Erlang standard library seems to be pretty important right now. And yea, you're not going very far without digging into OTP, and Martin Logan's book is pretty excellent. Great entry on this list.

bradfordarner 12y ago
I agree with you so much. I find myself digging into Erlang docs more and more. That being said, I think there needs to be a communal effort to improve Erlang documentation. It is very terse. One of the points brought up in Garret Smiths talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MvKLOecT1I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MvKLOecT1I
dpeck 12y ago
Agree completely. For me its all about OTP, thats the difference maker with Elixir/Erlang, without that its just another functional language, with it is an incredibly powerful tool/framework for building impressive distributed fault tolerant systems.
adamkittelson 12y ago
A lot of that is by design. It's my understanding that they made the decision not to wrap erlang standard libraries just for the sake of wrapping them, because the erlang standard libaries work just fine when called from elixir. If something needed to be wrapped to make it play more nicely with elixir, for example to change argument order to better suit elixir's |> operator, or if there were other real benefits to wrapping an erlang library, then they might wrap it. Otherwise if the erlang library is good just use the erlang library.
- bphogan 12y ago
  Yea, that's what I figured. But I don't like it so much. I tend to end up wrapping it myself just because I like piping with |>. But my main point was that when I started, I could just look to one source for language docs. But as I dug in, I realized that to do a lot of things, I needed to look at Erlang too. And then I realized I had to understand it. It's not bad, it's just a thing that makes learning the awesome language a lot more difficult.

kungfooguru 12y ago

Also checkout How I Start Elixir http://howistart.org/posts/elixir/1 http://howistart.org/posts/elixir/1 and Erlang http://howistart.org/posts/erlang/1 http://howistart.org/posts/erlang/1

mseepgood 12y ago

Erlang in Anger (Frank Herbert): http://www.erlang-in-anger.com http://www.erlang-in-anger.com

dpeck 12y ago
yeah, I'm sure thats a good addition, I've skimmed it and it's on my list to actually read.
unvs 12y ago
*Fred Hebert
- mVChr 12y ago
  Yeah, otherwise it would be http://www.the-erlang-must-flow.com/ http://www.the-erlang-must-flow.com/
pselbert 12y ago
Thanks for bringing this up. I've seen and heard it mentioned before and never took the time to seek it out.

AnkhMorporkian 12y ago

If I may, I feel that there's a better version of the first video. The version you linked suffers from terrible framing where you can't see a single line of code he writes. This video has a much better view, but unfortunately has awful sound. For me though, code is more important than sound quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQwEmdOH-GM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQwEmdOH-GM

dpeck 12y ago
yeah, I found that one, but I couldn't deal with the sound and I felt that the videos were more about getting the general idea of Elixir and understanding some of the things you could do with it in an infotainment way. I know were you're coming from though, its a really good preso with surprisingly bad recordings.

bentanweihao 12y ago

Awesome list! I also did two presentations at RedDotRubyConf 2014 and RubyConf 2014 on Elixir: Rubyists! Have a sip of Elixir – http://www.confreaks.com/videos/5078-RubyConf2014-rubyists-have-a-sip-of-elixir http://www.confreaks.com/videos/5078-RubyConf2014-rubyists-h... Ruby + Elixir – Polyglot FTW! – http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3845-rdrc2014-ruby-elixir-polyglotting-ftw http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3845-rdrc2014-ruby-elixir-po... Also, I'm writing a book on Elixir – http://www.exotpbook.com http://www.exotpbook.com Finally, I've done a few posts of Elixir – http://benjamintan.io/blog/tags/elixir/ http://benjamintan.io/blog/tags/elixir/