Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-20 Thread Rich Morin
On Jan 18, 2013, at 07:04, Brian Marick wrote: > On Jan 18, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Reginald Choudari > wrote: > >> I am looking for a new Clojure book to get me started on the language. > > Here's a beginning Clojure reading list, with some discussion: > http://regretful.ly/clojure/2013/01/16/begin

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-19 Thread Reginald Choudari
12. Seeing that Clojure is a changing language, I didn't want > to buy a book that would quickly become obsolete. > > From all that I read, this page seemed to be the most comprehensive > description of the current state of Clojure literature: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-19 Thread Marko Topolnik
> I wouldn't worry too much about differences because a book was written for > clojure 1.2 or 1.3 even though 1.5 is only just around the corner. The > differences are minor and tend to be most directly related to more advanced > topics that are unlikely to be of critical importance to begin w

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-19 Thread Charlie Griefer
On Jan 19, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Mimmo Cosenza wrote: > Hi, > wherever you start from (all the cited books are from good to very good), I > think that one day you could take you're time to read a couple amazing books. > > SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ SiCP also available as epub from https:

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-19 Thread AtKaaZ
anging language, I didn't want >> to buy a book that would quickly become obsolete. >> >> From all that I read, this page seemed to be the most comprehensive >> description of the current state of Clojure literature: http://** >> stackoverflow.com/questions/**257

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-19 Thread Mimmo Cosenza
ould quickly become obsolete. > > From all that I read, this page seemed to be the most comprehensive > description of the current state of Clojure literature: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2578837/comparing-clojure-books > > I'd like to hear if anyone has any recomme

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-19 Thread Tim Cross
ll that I read, this page seemed to be the most comprehensive > description of the current state of Clojure literature: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2578837/comparing-clojure-books > > I'd like to hear if anyone has any recommendations or if there is news of > any

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-18 Thread Alex Baranosky
"anything written for Clojure 1.2 that is based on old contrib is next to useless for teaching people basic Clojure these days." So very true. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.c

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-18 Thread Sean Corfield
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Tim Cross wrote: > I wouldn't worry too much about differences because a book was written for > clojure 1.2 or 1.3 Oh I would worry about that! I see so many people trying to learn Clojure from outdated books (mostly Clojure in Action) and getting into terrible pr

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-18 Thread Tim Cross
gt; From all that I read, this page seemed to be the most comprehensive > description of the current state of Clojure literature: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2578837/comparing-clojure-books > > I'd like to hear if anyone has any recommendations or if there is news of &

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-18 Thread Francesco Agozzino
2012. Seeing that Clojure is a changing language, I didn't want > to buy a book that would quickly become obsolete. > > From all that I read, this page seemed to be the most comprehensive > description of the current state of Clojure literature: > http://stackoverflow.com/q

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-18 Thread Sean Corfield
I see that specifically (and correctly) calls out two books written about pre-1.3 Clojure but does not call out Practical Clojure for the same issue. Wasn't that written for Clojure 1.1? (and is there a 2nd Ed in the pipeline? Luke? Stuart?) On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Alex Baranosky wrote:

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-18 Thread Alex Baranosky
http://clojure-doc.org/articles/ecosystem/books.html On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Brian Marick wrote: > > On Jan 18, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Reginald Choudari > wrote: > > > I am looking for a new Clojure book to get me started on the language. > > Here's a beginning Clojure reading list, with so

Re: Clojure Literature

2013-01-18 Thread Brian Marick
On Jan 18, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Reginald Choudari wrote: > I am looking for a new Clojure book to get me started on the language. Here's a beginning Clojure reading list, with some discussion: http://regretful.ly/clojure/2013/01/16/beginning-clojure-reading-list/ Occasional consulting

Clojure Literature

2013-01-18 Thread Reginald Choudari
arch/April 2012. Seeing that Clojure is a changing language, I didn't want to buy a book that would quickly become obsolete. >From all that I read, this page seemed to be the most comprehensive description of the current state of Clojure literature: http://stackoverflow.com/questions