Getting Clojure
by Russ Olsen · first published 2018
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Getting Clojure (Russ Olsen), Clojure for the Brave and True (Daniel Higginbotham), Living Clojure (Carin Meier), and Programming Clojure (me, Stuart Halloway, Aaron Bedra) are the best intro books, in my opinion.
on “Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey” ↗Getting Clojure by Russ Olsen. It's the most recently published of the introductory Clojure books and imo the best written.
on “Clojerl – Clojure for the Erlang VM” ↗Clojure. Started with "Getting Clojure" book and can't recommend it enough. Written in a clear and practical style.
on “Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?” ↗…most newcomers. Earlier books on Clojure were way to "intellectual" in my opinion and pretty offputting to the general programmer. Luckily that area has improved in recent years with books such as "Getting Clojure" and "Programming Clojure" Also the newcomer could be confused about what a repl is and how it functions with the IDE or editor. It would be better if editors and plugins focused on raw Socket or prepl…
on “The Future of Clojure” ↗I haven't been a Ruby programmer for 10 years but I totally agree on Eloquent Ruby. I sure did love that book. I still pick it up sometimes and thumb through it. I did a reading group for Getting Clojure (another book by Russ Olsen) just because I knew he wrote it. I totally agree. I have to remind myself often, I may not like the tool, but if I allow myself to get competent with it, I can complete any…
on “Introducing Ruvy” ↗For me -- 0: Neuromancer, William Gibson 1: The Rust programming Language, Carol Nichols and Steve Klabnik 2: Getting Clojure, Russ Olsen Interesting times indeed... :)
on “Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?” ↗I particpated in a Clojure reading group for "Getting Clojure" back around 2017. Having the entire JVM ecosystem available, is absolutely a great benefit. I even fooled around with ClojureScript a bit. David Nolen is great at making the case for both.
on “A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp” ↗