Hi, Randy, I'm several years into learning Clojure. Here's what has worked for me:
* Use either Light Table or (if you're determined) Emacs as your IDE. * I learned a lot from taking this free online course: http://iloveponies.github.io/120-hour-epic-sax-marathon/index.html * I have *all* the published Clojure books. To start, I recommend Programming Clojure, 2nd Ed. (Halloway), or Clojure Programming (Emerick et. al.). * Start on the exercises at 4clojure.com (sorted from easiest to hardest) ***AND*** (this is where you will learn the most) once you've completed an exercise, spend *a lot* of time studying other people's solutions, looking at both the factors of elegance and readability in solutions. If you can't figure one out, keep at it until you do. * Ask for help on stackoverflow.com. You get better results there because people have an incentive to write clearly. * In your own code, prefer readability over brevity (this bucks the common wisdom of the community). Use multiline functions that show structure through (auto)indentation. Symbol names are tricky--too short and they're cryptic, too long and they hide the code; find what works for you. * Watch videos from the various Clojure conferences and groups, especially those from Rich Hickey and the most visible contributors of the Clojure community. Their talks have given me a lot more about the philosophy of Clojure and how to think about coding in Clojure than most of the printed books. * Finally, here are my Clojure bookmarks, which go back almost five years https://www.pinboard.in/search/u:GreggInCA?query=clojure. Older links are, in some cases, outdated. Use your best judgement. * Persevere. Clojure is not an easy language/environment, but it is uniquely oriented to future hardware and it is very powerful. On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 4:58:44 AM UTC-7, Randy Chiu wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm new to clojure and want to find some suggestion for learning clojure. > I googled some project about "how to learn clojure" but without any perfect > answers until now. > I worked on linux kernel in last several years mainly with C, and I'm > recently interested in lisp. I try to read some books about common lisp and > scheme and even clojure, so I think I know a little about lisp but lacking > for practice. > So, I'd like to know any project I could read(or even try to join in), or > any other suggestion for learning this new lisp dialect please let me know. > Thanks for your advance. > -- 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/d/optout.
