I think a playlist suits more than a single video does, there are lots of single videos that introduce Elixir out there, and I think they do a plenty good job of it.

In which case, dependant of what we think of #1 we can either have a standard what, why, how structure, perhaps with what and why taking up one video together, and then the how being the real meat of the series of videos.

I suppose in general this issue is to keep track of whether we decided to go with the what, why, how format or just with the how

Depending on whether we think a mini project is the right way to go for these videos, as mentioned in #4, we would have to come up with a project to use!

I'm a bit lost of this one, any suggestions of good micro-projects we could do where we could cram in all of the elixir basics mentioned in #3 ?

In the learn-elixir repo we give installation instructions and the links to some (awesome) videos and a link to elixirschool.com to get the user acquainted with what Elixir is.

Do we need to have an introduction to what Elixir is in our own videos, or should we just suggest that the user watches the videos/reads the material linked in the README? I suppose it depends on whether we want these videos to be able to completely stand on their own, or to be an accompaniment to the README of the learn-elixir repo.

I can see arguments for both so am keen for input!

Based on the content outlined in #3 I think there are two possible ways to go in terms of the video content.
Apart from for the intro to iex and types of data in Elixir, I think we could introduce the rest of the content either through little examples where we show each thing in a nutshell (here's how to use a case statement, here's how to do pattern matching), or we create a micro project and introduce concepts as we encounter them in a sort of code along style way.

I personally prefer the idea of a project based walkthrough with core libraries and stuff included, but I don't know if other people thing introducing things in a very separate way might be better?

For the sort of MVP of the videos I think we should make a small amount of content which covers some of the basics of Elixir to see how well the videos are received. Content I think would be good to cover:

• Use of iex
• types of values in elixir
• using the elixir documentation and how awesome it is
• commonly used code modules (Enum etc)
• case, cond, if and unless
• guards
• pattern matching (including pattern matching in case statements)
• creating projects with mix
• documentation in elixir
• testing in elixir, including doctests

I think these would be a good basis and be enough content that someone could go and play with Elixir. Some of this stuff (testing/doctesting and documentation) is not included in any of the free videos that I've seen on Elixir, and testing and documentation are both super important to us at dwyl so I think they are a must have.

Any suggestions of other content to include in the first series of the videos?