A coworker of mine asked me for suggestions yesterday after starting directly with Joy of Clojure as if it were an intro text for himself and getting lost after getting halfway through. Even though this coworker of mine is pretty experienced over many years -- and has programmed in C++, Java, Python, JS, Jess, Scala -- I pointed him to the Clojure cheatsheet and the Clojure for Java Programmers youtube videos. The reason being that he wanted to get comfortable and able to do something productive/practical as soon as possible.
http://clojure.org/cheatsheet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P76Vbsk_3J0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb3rurFxrZ8 Even if you haven't read up on Clojure yet, but have a background in Java/C#/C++/Scala, those Clojure for Java Programmers videos ought to be pretty good. There are other great intro videos by Rich Hickey on the same ClojureTV youtube channel. In addition, I like these tutorials if you want a slightly gentler approach than either the Joy of Clojure or Clojure Programming books -- Clojure from the Ground Up, and Mark Volkmann's summary page on Clojure: https://aphyr.com/tags/Clojure-from-the-ground-up http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html And in the same vein, I just started reading the new book Living Clojure, and I think it would also be great for first-timers who want an easier incline into the language. -- Elango On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Learning Clojure is not so much about learning the language's features, > it's about learning how Clojure's particular combination of features causes > you to think about software development in a new way. Living Clojure is a > new-ish book that points you at a number of small programming "code kata" > challenges you can work on to develop the Clojure mindset. Clojure Applied > is a brand new book that shows you how to take that mindset and apply it to > larger, real-world projects. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
