g5becks
Learning Elixir Path for someone not new to functional programming
Hello everyone. So I just got done reading all of the introduction to Elixir and working through the basics of the language. I am not new to functional programming, I wrote scala for a year Scala in the past and used some F# as well. Elixir will be my first dynamic functional language, don’t see that as being a huge issue though. I have no problems with the basic fundamentals of recursion, pipelines, etc. What I am looking to get most acquainted with is the idioms in elixir for managing state, concurrency, architecture, OTP and all of the things I need to build a production-ready app with Phoenix.
I have purchased a few books Programming Elixir 1.6, Programming Phoenix 1.4, and Meta-Programming in Elixir. I really like to know everything that’s going on underneath the hood when using a framework and I Have about 10 days of free time to really get up to speed with the language and ecosystem before I embark upon beginning to build a side project with phoenix.
I was about to start reading Programming Elixir, but I see a lot of posts here about the course elixir for programmers. For those who have read the book and done the course, which one is do you consider to be more in-depth and likely to get me up to speed faster?
Thanks.
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kokolegorille
If You don’t mind reading Erlang source code, this book is for You…
as it shows good usage of OTP.
AstonJ
Good point! Hopefully it will serve as a good foundation though (I haven’t read it myself yet mind though admittedly did think it would cover some liveview) 
g5becks
To be honest, it’s a practice that I have followed for every language I have ever learned. I usually give myself ( at most ) a week to get up to speed with the language and then I like to start building.
I’ve never found myself able to fully grasp a concept just by reading or watching videos. I have to learn from the standpoint of actually getting my hands dirty with a project. I’m more of the learn as I go / learn by doing type.
The only reason I’m even giving myself 2 weeks ( I’ve been learning for 3 days now ) is because I need to get up to speed with Phoenix on top of elixir.
Thanks for the recommendations.
ityonemo
this is incredibly helpful for writing servers.
https://learnyousomeerlang.com/buckets-of-sockets
of course you have to remember that Capsed identifiers are variables and lower_case identifiers are atoms =D
peerreynders
Welcome to the forum!
I Have about 10 days of free time to really get up to speed with the language and ecosystem before I embark upon beginning to build a side project with phoenix.
The course is a good quick start but I think you should be seriously considering:
- Elixir in Action 2e (to get the “process thinking”)
- Programming Phoenix 1.4
- Programming Ecto (you’ll likely be interacting with a database like PostgreSQL)
Won’t finish that in 10 days though …
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