The books I've found valuable are Clojure Programming. Really liked this book because it just fitted well with my preferred style of book. Really enjoyed it and found that often, just as I was asking myself a question, the answer was in the next paragraph.
Joy of Clojure. Excellent book. Possibly not a great first book, but absolutely a must once you have read one of the others and you really want to get a deeper understanding. I have returned to sections on this book a number of times and get something out of it each time. Really helps with the deeper knowledge I think you need for real projects. Programming Clojure. This was the first book I read. A good starting point (have only read 1st edition). Has enough to get you started, but avoids getting you too bogged down, so you feel like your making progress. I also have a copy of the new clojureScript book from O'Reilly, but have not read it yet. I wouldn't worry too much about differences because a book was written for clojure 1.2 or 1.3 even though 1.5 is only just around the corner. The differences are minor and tend to be most directly related to more advanced topics that are unlikely to be of critical importance to begin with. Once you have covered the content in these books, you will pick up the minor differences in later versions easily enough. Probably more important is to use Lein 2.0 right from the start and ensure you spend as much time trying to cut clojure code as reading about cutting clojure code! have fun. Tim On Saturday, January 19, 2013 1:46:14 AM UTC+11, Reginald Choudari wrote: > > I am looking for a new Clojure book to get me started on the language. > I've been doing some clojure-koans and reading up on web-development with > Clojure and am interested to get down to the knitty-gritty... From what > I've seen, it looks like the latest Clojure books are from around > March/April 2012. Seeing that Clojure is a changing language, I didn't want > to buy a book that would quickly become obsolete. > > From all that I read, this page seemed to be the most comprehensive > description of the current state of Clojure literature: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2578837/comparing-clojure-books > > I'd like to hear if anyone has any recommendations or if there is news of > any upcoming books coming out that might be worth waiting for. > > Thanks, > Reginald > -- 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
