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Having on-boarded quite a few jr developers with no previous experience with Elixir (and have purchased the prag studio course for most of them) I've heard that many of them also really enjoyed

https://joyofelixir.com/

and

https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/basics/basics/

And while I haven't watched it - there's a free code camp tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiIgm_yaoOA

From looking around there seems to be a host of free videos on YT as well as many books on elixir/phoenix. Also, I believe prag studio gives away 1/2 of that initial course for free, probably enough to get you started.

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> Also, I believe prag studio gives away 1/2 of that initial course for free

If I have read their website right, they say only first three modules are free, the whole course has 35 modules.

> there seems to be a host of free videos on YT as well as many books on elixir/phoenix

You are right about the videos, though I am not so sure about books. Phoenix 1.7 doesn't seem to have any good books for it at all.

hmmm, yes you are correct. I thought they used to offer more for free but maybe my memory is off. Apologies.

You are also right about that the Phoenix book needs an update, they changed A LOT with the way they structure code in the last release. Which, you don't have to use btw, you can still use the older methods. The major differences are here https://elixircasts.io/upgrading-to-phoenix-1.7 which I can honestly understand the pain a new developer feels when the books are out of date.

I'd still consider going through an older book, you'll learn 90-95% of the same thing.

> I'd still consider going through an older book, you'll learn 90-95% of the same thing.

Seconded. I have the book, and it's pretty easy to understand where the differences are. And worth learning the pre 1.7 Phoenix because a lot of the changes thereafter make so much more sense when you know the pain points that motivated them.

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