Hi, If I were a programming teacher, I would have students re-realize what one can achieve with programing in general at the start because people's action always come from their inner motivation. To enumerate concrete benefits and success story like TV shopping may be effective. Without motivation, all interesting knowledge will vaporize. "Immutable? It must be something great! but I don't care."
Cheers, Takahiro 2013/10/6 bernardH <un.compte.pour.tes...@gmail.com> > Hi all, > > I intend to (ab)use my authority as a teacher to enlighten unsuspecting > students > about Clojure. > > On the plus side, I may give them insights that they did not even know > they needed. On the minus side, I cannot expect (all of) them to be > curious about Clojure. > > Hence, I want to make a "demand driven" introduction. > > My goal is to : > 1. identify what novelties Clojure brings to the table to Java developers > - homoiconicity : macros > - syntaxing sugar (e.g ->, cond) > - programming paradigms as libraries > - core.logic > - core.async > - dynamic typing > - simple concurrency handling : > - immutable data structures > - ref > - atoms > - STM > - open-ended dynamic dispatching (protocols, namespaced vs. monkey > patching) > - multiple dispatching (multimethods) > - maps instead of classes (no privacy & accessors needed thx to > dynamic typing and immutable data) and composable libraries instead > of frameworks. > > 2. For as many of those features as possible, I'd like to find a minimal > use case that will be : > - genuinely interesting (so that they find it beliveable that they > might actually want to solve a similar problem) > > - complex (if possible hard!) / tedious to solve in Java (I will > provide the Java code) > > - simple (if possible easy) to solve in Clojure. > > > The idea being that they would conclude from : > 1. that the want to solve these problems > 2. that Java won't help them much but Clojure would help them a lot > > (+ 1. 2.) → > 3. They want to learn Clojure ! ☺ > > I'd be most grateful for any help, either to complete/amend my list in 1., > or to provide ideas for 2. > > > Best Regards, > > B. > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- 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.
