Hi Devin, On Thursday, August 4, 2011 5:14:19 AM UTC+2, Devin Walters (devn) wrote: > > > On Jul 29, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Stefan Kamphausen wrote: > > inc > > IMHO there are three types of people coming to Clojure > > > 1. Java Programmers > 2. Old-school lispers > 3. all the other, who just want to try (and possibly follow the > examples in a tutorial or book) > > [...] > > To me it seems important to get the common misunderstandings and problems > out of the way for groups 1 and 2. The Java-programmers will need more help > to get going with REPL-oriented programming an to integrate Clojure in their > (existing) Java-programs, whereas the old-school lispers (OSPs? ;-) need a > hand getting around in the Java ecosystem (mvn, jar, war, classpath, etc). > > > The "other" category you mentioned needs just as much help with > REPL-oriented programming. A solid editor-agnostic screencast on this style > of development would do quite a bit of good, I think. The rhythm can be a > bit fast for beginners when they don't see how you hit a hotkey to > re-evaluate a form in your source in the REPL, for instance. >
Alas, if only one had more time... I still remember the first SLIME screencast which was a real eye-opener [1]. It's just, that as a beginner you want to see how the more experienced really work. I had the luck an pleasure to spend a few days with Edi Weitz when I finally started with CL after years of Elisp. A screencast would be the next closest thing, I guess. Cheers, Stefan Footnotes: [1] slime.mov by Marco Barringer; seems to be mostly gone from the usual places. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
