Living Clojure
by Carin Meier · first published 2015
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Beginner-friendly Clojure intro with practical examples and a training program; shows why and how to use the language in real projects. Suits newcomers wanting a hands-on start before moving to The Joy of Clojure.
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“If you’re an experienced programmer who has not worked with Clojure before, this guide is the perfect thorough but gentle introduction for you. Author Carin Meier not only provides a practical overview of this JVM language and its functional programming concepts, but also includes a complete hands-on training course to help you learn Clojure in a structured way. The first half of the book takes you through Clojure’s unique design and lets you try your hand at two Clojure projects, including a web app. The holistic course in second half provides you with critical tools and resources, includin
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…The fact that it's there just means that there's room to grow. The core language is actually very simple and quite straightforward. It just allows for some quite mind-boggling stuff. Try Carin Meier's Living Clojure if you feel up for an intro.
on “Clojure 1.7 is now available” ↗…focused on the language without showing why you would use it or how to use it for real world projects. It's like... a detailed guide to the language, for people who already know clojure. I recommend 'Living Clojure' by Carin Meier for new comers. (Also, avoid the clojure cookbook; it's just a list of 'how to do X' for a bunch of X questions, kind of like a FAQ of best practices; it's in no way an introduction to…
on “Clojure for the Brave and True (2015)” ↗Add Carin Meier Living Clojure to your reading list http://gigasquidsoftware.com/#/books/index Clojure for the Brave and True is a great way to get your Emacs setup. If you are going the light table route then start here: https://github.com/swannodette/lt-cljs-tutorial or…
on “Ask HN: Getting started with Clojure” ↗…and get a turn-key tech doc system. It's a complete Clojure/ClojureScript/Datomic application, and it's only 800 lines. I hope it helps you, and feedback is totally welcome! As for 'book learning'; Living Clojure by Carin Meier is currently in the USD 1 Humble Bundle at https://www.humblebundle.com/books/functional-programming-bo.... It has a 13 week FP course in it. Highly recommended.
on “A Clojure learning journey” ↗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” ↗…directly through repl and getting to know primitive data types, constructs and most commonly needed APIs functions is the most practical way IMHO. Of most of the books written on clojure i really like "Living Clojure" by Carin Meier. Throughout this book, she will give you the feeling that she is sitting beside you and you pair programming with a senior clojure developer. She goes very elegantly into each topic through…
on “Clojure by Example (2015)” ↗If you are into books, I will recommend Clojure for the Brave and True which is free to read online [1], and Living Clojure [2], in that order. If you're into interactive kata-style problems, there's 4Clojure [3]. Also join the Clojurians's Slack [4] for the community. [1] https://www.braveclojure.com/clojure-for-the-brave-and-true/ [2]…
on “Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase” ↗Great writeup. I have been using Clojure for years, and I still got good ideas from this article. BTW, I have been reading through Carin's (still beta) book Living Clojure - also recommended.
on “How I Start: Clojure” ↗Huh, another Clojure book? I was skimming through Programming Clojure, Practical Clojure and Programming Concurrency on the JVM earlier this year (apparently before Living Clojure came out), seems like this would be a great addition to the Clojure resources with all the practical examples and the training program. On the same note, looks like The Pragmatic Bookshelf is working…
on “Modern ClojureScript” ↗Programming Clojure, Clojure Programming, or Living Clojure - is a good start. The Joy of Clojure is next step after any of these books.
on “State of Clojure 2015: Survey Results” ↗I can confirm that. I did the same route. Afterwards I read the "Living Clojure" book and solved the Wonderland Katas (https://github.com/gigasquid/wonderland-clojure-katas)
on “Clojure for the Brave and True (2015)” ↗…right, the book is not suitable for first time learners without any or much background in programming. This as lots of concepts are explained in passing. It quite frustrated me and I think Carin Meyers "Living Clojure" or Aphyr's "Clojure from the ground up" are in this respect a much better job. However, after having gained some experience with Clojure I thought the book was quite rewarding. As of the Jokes, it seems…
on “Clojure for the Brave and True (2015)” ↗…http://clojurekoans.com/ Excercises: http://www.4clojure.com/ Clojure from the Ground up: https://aphyr.com/posts/301-clojure-from-the-ground-up-welco... Clojure MMOC: http://mooc.fi/courses/2014/clojure/ Book: Living Clojure / Clojure for the Brave and True) Good luck and may the REPL be with you!
on “Ask HN: What are the best learning resources or ways for Clojure?” ↗…with a popular Clojure project called Chestnut, if that matters to you), http://www.4clojure.com/ and http://clojurescriptkoans.com/ are free practise sites, and the https://www.braveclojure.com/ and Living Clojure books were helpful to me when getting started.
on “Clojure Design Patterns” ↗Living Clojure is my favourite learning book on Clojure Also I recommend making friends with someone who can show you their structural editing and REPL setup, preferably more than one friend because it's like trying…
on “Programming at the REPL (2018)” ↗