Getting Started with Elixir

Talk given as part of the March 2017 Elixir Bangalore Meetup. The talk covers specific things for a beginner like some handy resources to learn Elixir based on their style of learning, things they'd use wrt Elixir most likely on a regular basis, how they can get guidance from the Elixir community and how they can stay up to date with the latest happenings around the language.

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1. Getting Started with Elixir
2. Many resources out there
3. • Tutorials ◦ Official Elixir Lang Getting Started Guides Some handy resources for learning Elixir
4. ◦ Elixir School ▪ Tutorials for • specific topics ◦ Ecto ◦ Debugging ◦ and more.. • Libraries like Poolboy etc., • Advanced topics like OTP, GenStage etc., • Tutorials available in several languages • Books ◦ Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas ▪ Has exercises and a forum to help answer your questions ◦ Elixir in Action by Saša Jurić ▪ Teaches ways to apply Elixir to practical problems associated with scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, and high availability Some handy resources for learning Elixir(contd.)
5. Some handy resources for learning Elixir(contd.) • Learning by doing ◦ Available exercises on Exercism’s Elixir Track ▪ 67 exercises currently available to solve ◦ Elixir Koans • Day to day use ◦ Hexdocs ▪ Standard Library ▪ Interactive Shell ▪ ExUnit ▪ Logger ▪ Mix • Others ◦ Elixir Examples ▪ A collection of small Elixir programming language examples ◦ Erlang docs ▪ Erlang Stdlib - Use Erlang functions in Elixir
6. Getting Guidance • Elixir Lang Slack Group ◦ Get your invite here ◦ Join ▪ #beginners channel ▪ #exercism channel • Elixir Forum ◦ Discourse based ◦ Get code reviews etc., • IRC ◦ #elixir-lang on freenode IRC • Stackoverflow
7. How to stay updated • Mailing lists ◦ Elixir Lang core mailing list ▪ Discussions related to Elixir Core ie., patches, features, proposals, security releases etc • Newsletters ◦ Elixir Radar ◦ Elixir Weekly ◦ Elixir Digest • Podcasts ◦ Elixir Fountain ▪ Covers a variety of topics ▪ 5 Behind the code :) • Elixir meetups ◦ Find local meetups via www.meetup.com ◦ See if you can find Elixir remote meetups like this one ▪ Join the #remote-meetup channel on elixir-lang.slack.com for updates on upcoming remote meetups • Learn about new Erlang and Elixir libraries ◦ awesome-elixir github repo
8. How to stay updated(contd.) • Videos from Elixir related conferences ◦ Elixir conf ◦ Elixir conf EU ◦ Elixir London ◦ Lonestar Elixir ◦ Elixir Daze ◦ Empire City Elixir ◦ Erlang Factory, Erlang User Conference, Erlang Factory Lite
9. Takeaways • Elixir community is very approachable for beginners • You can learn Elixir through the official getting started guides or other resources • Engage with the Elixir community as a beginner via modern tools like Slack, Discourse etc., • Stay up to date with the latest around Elixir by subscribing to the mailing list, newsletters etc.,
10. @mohnishgj www.mohnishjadwani.com https://medium.com/@mohnishgj • Photo Credits ◦ https://minerva.io/lessons-learned/adding-too-many-resources/ - Many resources out there