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I really enjoyed the Little Elixir and OTP guide book by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao. As an entry point its great because it shows what's special about elixir. https://www.amazon.com/Little-Elixir-OTP-Guidebook/dp/1633430111

However, if you are coming from rails world and just want to dive into making a phoenix app, that could be a n easier approach. Ive been building a recipe website over past month or so and it's taught me a lot too. I'm using almost none of the OTP stuff I learned to make Phoenix apps btw.

There's an excellent book on evolutionary neural networks in Erlang, which readily applies to Elixir as well. Fun read but I'm still looking for an application (preferably with Nerves) :-)

https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Neuroevolution-Through-Erlang-Gene/dp/1493945882/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=evolutionary+neural+networks+in+erlang&qid=1569502997&sr=8-1

Yes, it's expensive. I work in the area so I could expense it at work. https://github.com/search?q=neuroevolution+erlang has a bunch of code that should by itself prove insightful though.

This is a great question. I would love to hear the opinions of some of the more experienced Erlang'ers. I'm currently working through [Erlang and OTP in Action] (http://www.amazon.com/Erlang-OTP-Action-Martin-Logan/dp/1933988789) myself.

Does it need to be a screencast?

What about the free Phoenix Framework Guides or the book Programming Phoenix?

I get that some people enjoy screencasts, but personally for the basics I would much rather have the guides or the book because they're much easier to re-visit.

This is a good introduction to HTML and CSS: https://www.amazon.com/HTML-CSS-Design-Build-Websites/dp/1118008189/ref=mt_paperback

I have successfully used it as the starting point for high school students and non-technical marketing people.

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Elixir-1-3-Functional-Concurrent/dp/168050200X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1478051239&sr=8-5&keywords=elixir

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Phoenix-Productive-Reliable-Fast/dp/1680501453/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478051263&sr=8-1&keywords=programming+phoenix

There are some other great books but these two got me off the ground. Elixir is very diffrent from ruby and you might get frustrated at first if you don't have a strong functional background. Its def worth the effort.

Protip: learn to use the |> operator early. Its awesome!!

A(B(a, b), c) => a |> B(b) |> A(c)

I'm currently reading Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang and translating the Erlang code to Elixir as a way of understanding Erlang/Elixir and neural nets.

I would like to apply this in the future to building Games based around strong AI.

You should definitely read this book: Adopting Elixir: From Concept to Production. The first chapters are all about this.

JEG and Bruce Tate are about to release a new book titled Designing Elixir Systems with OTP (in beta) that might be worth checking out for you.

Here's the Amazon link.

I'm waiting for the absinthe graphql book https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Graphql-APIs-Elixir-Absinthe/dp/1680502557