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Re: Joy of Elixir

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Post by SamBoogieNYC »

kureikain wrote: post #7
beedn wrote: post #4

is there any news recently about Elixir? I'm asking since recently Im seeing a lot of articles about how to get into Elixir which is really nice since I just started pickup the language as well.

A good youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKQ85T69sYhifDHF7dnPgw/vid... Kind of like a quick guide: https://elixirschool.com http://elixirbridge.org/02_Intro_to_Elixir/01-why-program-wh... I think Elixir isn't that hard about syntax. Just start to do something and learn it on the go, see how people do it. I have experience with it, quite nice: https://github.com/yeo/betterdev.link/tree/master/communit…

Nice resources here.. I'll add this Udemy course to the list:

https://www.udemy.com/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootca...

Does anyone have recommendations for specific Phoenix learning resources?

Re: Joy of Elixir

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Post by actsasbuffoon »

SamBoogieNYC wrote: post #11
kureikain wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKQ85T69sYhifDHF7dnPgw/vid... Kind of like a quick guide: https://elixirschool.com http://elixirbridge.org/02_Intro_to_Elixir/01-why-program-wh... I think Elixir isn't that hard about syntax. Just start to do something and learn it on the go, see how people do it. I have experience with it, quite nice: https://github.com/yeo/betterdev.link/tree/master/communit…

Nice resources here.. I'll add this Udemy course to the list: https://www.udemy.com/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootca... Does anyone have recommendations for specific Phoenix learning resources?

I've found the guide on the Phoenix website to be enough most of the time.

Re: Joy of Elixir

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Post by X86BSD »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #10
puuush wrote: post #6

This doesn't improve the current docs or tutorials.

It does if you are an absolute beginner to programming. If you are already seasoned then yes it doesn't add much, it just means you aren't the target audience.

Which the JOE folks make quite clear. Why would anyone assume this was not for complete novices new to programming in general? It seems odd to me.

I find it a very good start for someone new to programming with zero experience and wishing to start with elixir.

There are hardly any books that approach programming elixir from a complete lack of programming knowledge POV. I'm happy to see this!

Re: Joy of Elixir

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Post by beedn »

kureikain wrote: post #7
beedn wrote: post #4

is there any news recently about Elixir? I'm asking since recently Im seeing a lot of articles about how to get into Elixir which is really nice since I just started pickup the language as well.

A good youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKQ85T69sYhifDHF7dnPgw/vid... Kind of like a quick guide: https://elixirschool.com http://elixirbridge.org/02_Intro_to_Elixir/01-why-program-wh... I think Elixir isn't that hard about syntax. Just start to do something and learn it on the go, see how people do it. I have experience with it, quite nice: https://github.com/yeo/betterdev.link/tree/master/communit…

Wow http://elixirbridge.org seems really interesting! I'm following the official tutorial right now to get the basic down and will go through the book Programming Phoenix

Re: Joy of Elixir

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Post by shocks »

dgjuuff wrote: post #12

Another book by someone with no experience in the language. Typical vultures latching onto a community and trying to monetize it.

> by someone with no experience in the language

What evidence do you have?

Re: Joy of Elixir

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Post by dgjuuff »

shocks wrote: post #16
dgjuuff wrote: post #12

Another book by someone with no experience in the language. Typical vultures latching onto a community and trying to monetize it.

> by someone with no experience in the language What evidence do you have?

You mustn't be familiar with the author...

The author has been hanging around the community for the past few months, if they wanted to make it a better place, they should work on improving the already amazing documentation. This is all just A self promotional stunts. The author has done this before in the Rails community

Re: Joy of Elixir

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Post by pmarreck »

dgjuuff wrote: post #12

Another book by someone with no experience in the language. Typical vultures latching onto a community and trying to monetize it.

Ryan Bigg (github: https://github.com/radar) has been active in the Ruby community for years (and is seriously intelligent, at least based on his many past IRC responses to my Ruby questions, assuming he's also named Radar on there), has apparently been working with Elixir on the side for a while, and IMHO can definitely handle an Elixir book intended for new programmers. He would be a very significant asset to the community were he to jump ship and go fulltime Elixir.

Your skepticism (which is otherwise probably warranted) is quite wrong in this case. I'm sorry if someone defecated into your Cheerios this morning, though.

Sometimes the best way to learn is to teach, and sometimes the best way to teach is to make money teaching. :P

Re: Joy of Elixir

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Post by adamkittelson »

dgjuuff wrote: post #17
shocks wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> by someone with no experience in the language What evidence do you have?

You mustn't be familiar with the author... The author has been hanging around the community for the past few months, if they wanted to make it a better place, they should work on improving the already amazing documentation. This is all just A self promotional stunts. The author has done this before in the Rails community

I'm not familiar with the author, but writing a programming book has got to have the worst possible effort to return value ratio if one's goal is solely self-promotion. I'm disinclined to believe anyone would put in that kind of time if that's what they were going for.

Re: Joy of Elixir

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Post by pmarreck »

pawelduda wrote: post #5
beedn wrote: post #4

is there any news recently about Elixir? I'm asking since recently Im seeing a lot of articles about how to get into Elixir which is really nice since I just started pickup the language as well.

Erlang/OTP 20.0, Elixir 1.5 and Phoenix framework 1.3 were all released in a timespan of 2 months or so - huge improvements to the already great ecosystem.

Two months? Try all within the last 2 weeks!
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