Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-23 Thread Hercules Merscher
I saw this, very nice. These days i started with Programming Clojure Book and i'm enjoying :) On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Plínio Balduino wrote: > A nice post by Nikola Peric about this subject with what to read and what > to avoid. > > > http://deltadata.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/learning-

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-23 Thread Plínio Balduino
A nice post by Nikola Peric about this subject with what to read and what to avoid. http://deltadata.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/learning-clojure-tutorial-books-and-resources-for-beginners/ Plínio On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > 2014-04-23 15:05 GMT+02:00 Stefan Kamphaus

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-23 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2014-04-23 15:05 GMT+02:00 Stefan Kamphausen : > Would German be an option for you? > ​With what is available, not for me, but maybe for others it would.​ -- Cecil Westerhof -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, se

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-23 Thread Stefan Kamphausen
Would German be an option for you? Just curious stefan -- 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

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-23 Thread Daniel Higginbotham
"Clojure Programming" was the most useful to me when I started with Clojure (I already had a bit of Lisp experience). Kyle Kingsbury has an online series going, "Clojure from the Ground Up" (http://aphyr.com/tags/Clojure-from-the-ground-up). I'm writing a book as well, "Clojure for the Brave an

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-23 Thread kurofune
I'm about halfway through all of them, and find the back and forth to actually be helpful. First and foremost though, i recommend you go through the "clojure koans" video series on YouTube and get started with 4clojure.com (subsequent, difficult problems will become easier for you as you progres

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-22 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Let me also +10 for Eric Normand’s excellent Clojure videos, found at http://www.purelyfunctional.tv On Apr 22, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > 2014-04-22 20:18 GMT+02:00 Cecil Westerhof : > I have a ‘little’ to learn. ;-) I have worked with a lot of languages, > including Lisp. I

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-22 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2014-04-22 20:18 GMT+02:00 Cecil Westerhof : > 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 > - Programmi

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-22 Thread Andrey Antukh
Hi Cecil I had read almost all books of you list and without a doubt clojure programming (o'reilly) is the best book for me ;) Andrey 2014-04-22 20:18 GMT+02:00 Cecil Westerhof : > I have a ‘little’ to learn. ;-) I have worked with a lot of languages, > including Lisp. I was thinking about the

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-22 Thread Mike Haney
Yeah, JoC is my favorite clojure book, but I agree it's not the best to start with. Let me throw a couple others into the mix that haven't been mentioned yet. If you come from a solid OO background, I highly recommend Brian Marick's book "Functional Programming For the Object Oriented programm

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-22 Thread Gary Trakhman
JoC is like SICP, just really worth doing, not necessarily immediately practical. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Plínio Balduino 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

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-22 Thread Plínio Balduino
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 wrote: > I think you should care about learning the concepts involved in clojure > and functional programming in

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-22 Thread Alex Vzorov
I started with JoC and reading Programming Clojure now. Both give pretty good introduction to the language and its capabilities. JoC is full of not-so-simple examples, but they make one's brain work, show the clojure way, and are good for people how know they way around programming in general.

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-22 Thread Alex Ott
Hi I would recommend to take Programming Clojure or Clojure Programming first, and after that take the The Joy of Clojure (2ed)... On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > I have a ‘little’ to learn. ;-) I have worked with a lot of languages, > including Lisp. I was thinking ab

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-22 Thread Thiago Massa
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 sam

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-22 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2014-04-22 20:32 GMT+02:00 Plínio Balduino : > 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 >

Re: Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-22 Thread Plínio Balduino
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

Books for learning Clojure

2014-04-22 Thread Cecil Westerhof
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 Prog