JoC is like SICP, just really worth doing, not necessarily immediately practical.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Plínio Balduino <pbaldu...@gmail.com>wrote: > Exactly, Thiago. > > I just understood Clojure after dive into Clojure. The books helped a lot, > but alone they are almost useless. > > Plínio > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Thiago Massa <thiag...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think you should care about learning the concepts involved in clojure >> and functional programming in general. "Getting" clojure after you have >> done some haskell, lisp or erlang is supposed to be a breeze, so you need >> to get to the basics! >> >> I bet that most of the books will teach you almost the same thing with >> different words, so as long they cover the main concepts of clojure like: >> protocols, macros, concurrency... learning the in and outs of the language >> is really up to you and one of the best ways of doing it is writing >> clojure. So I advise you to just read whatever book cover looks best while >> practicing on every piece of code the book shows you. >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Cecil Westerhof >> <cldwester...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> 2014-04-22 20:32 GMT+02:00 Plínio Balduino <pbaldu...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Some will say that Joy of Clojure is not the best choice for the >>>> newcomer. >>>> >>>> I read all the books more in your list more than once and had the >>>> better comprehension with JoC. >>>> The important thing is that I didn't get Clojure reading the first or >>>> second book. I just really understood after read the five books (that I >>>> call as "The Five Books of Clojure) and tried to create my own Lisp. >>>> Anyway, once you get the "click", all these books will become a lot >>>> easier to understand. >>>> >>> >>> So the sequence in which I read the books is not very important? >>> Formulated otherwise: no reason to switch from my original plan? >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 22/04/2014, at 15:18, Cecil Westerhof <cldwester...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I have a ‘little’ to learn. ;-) I have worked with a lot of languages, >>>> including Lisp. I was thinking about the following books (in that order): >>>> - Practical Clojure >>>> - Clojure in Action >>>> - The Joy of Clojure >>>> - Clojure Programming >>>> - Programming Clojure >>>> >>>> Someone told me it was better to start with Programming Clojure and >>>> after that The Joy of Clojure. 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