Thank you, good points! I lacked the imagination to seriously consider load-file. :) I'll practice using it.
Definitely will buy Brian Marick's book. [1] Pleasantly surprised to look through clojure-doc.org; probably confused it earlier with clojuredocs.org. :) All the best, Tj [1] Coincidentally, this week I'll be discussing Midje — very positively — at the local Clojure meeting group. I'd suspected that Clojure's unit-testing story was less than top-notch, but I was wrong — Midje easily dealt with everything I threw at it. On Saturday, April 13, 2013 3:25:56 PM UTC+2, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 04:46 -0700, Tj Gabbour wrote: > > I am helping run a Clojure workshop for a company's employees. (We will > use > > Quil to program Conway's Game of Life, in pairs or small teams. We'll > first > > show people how to use a cheatsheet of Clojure forms, which they can cut > & > > paste and mold; and give them a repo with a basic framework for > programming > > Game of Life.) > > > > They will generally use: vim, Sumblime Text, TextMate. > > > > I'm sure my concerns are a bit overblown, but I'd like to at least > visualize > > myself helping participants have a tight edit-run-debug cycle, if they > wish. > > Hopefully something nicer than pasting code into a terminal's REPL, and > more > > interactive than constantly running from the commandline. Any tips? > > vim, at least, supports Clojure development quite nicely. Take a look at: > > http://clojure-doc.org/articles/tutorials/vim_fireplace.html > > to learn how to set it up. So you could prepare the environment for vim > (as > you already have done for Emacs) and make it easier for vim users to learn > the > actual language. I am not sure about Sublime Text or TextMate though, but > a > short query on google revealed at least: > > http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control and > https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL > > The equivalent for TextMate seems to be no longer maintained, but you > might be > able to dig up something. > > All that being said: I wouldn't necessarily focus too much on these > specific > tools (also /not/ Emacs), but simply show them how to load files in the > lein2 > nrepl and take it from there. That way they can edit Clojure files with a > tool of their choice and concentrate on learning the actual language > rather > than the tooling. It would still be nice if you installed the > respective syntax files for various editors beforehand so that syntax > highlighting and indentation works (maybe even paredit) as expected. > > I can recommend Brian's jp-oo book [0] as a good example of this style of > teaching (and in general as well). > > [0] https://leanpub.com/fp-oo > -- > Wolodja <bab...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > > 4096R/CAF14EFC > 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
