Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-28 Thread Manuel Paccagnella
Maybe one additional thing to note is that the book shows that the Clojure web development ecosystem is a reflection of its general philosophy and it's not about any particular "framework" but more focused on composing simple components/libraries. Once you understand the basic concepts (HTTP ri

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-27 Thread Mark Engelberg
It's worth noting that the new Clojure Cookbook also has a chapter that goes over the basics of Clojure web development. If you already are quite comfortable with Clojure and don't need to see a lot of extended examples, the Cookbook chapter covers much of the same ground as the Clojure Web Develo

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-27 Thread Hari Krishnan
My experience.. 1. It is a well written book. You will have to read sequentially. 2. Prior knowledge of clojure is required -- list, vector, map, let etc. (Or at least review the clojure summary at the back first). 3. Since I knew Rails before, a lot of the concepts seemed to be straight fo

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-21 Thread Stefan Kanev
On 19/02/14, Erlis Vidal wrote: > Hi all, > > Have any of you read the book *Web Development with Clojure*? > > http://www.amazon.com/Web-Development-Clojure-Build-Bulletproof/dp/1937785645 > > There's only one review on amazon, and it's a fantastic review but I'm > wondering if this is the book

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-21 Thread dcwhatthe
You're right, Adrian. Brian did a nice job on this. He talks to the reader, like a normal person trying to share his passion, not an academic. On Thursday, February 20, 2014 3:00:15 AM UTC-5, Adrian Mowat wrote: > > Hi Laurent > > If you are making the switch from OO then I recommend > https

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-20 Thread m0nastic
I just wanted to share my experience, I don't know if it's relatable to your current situation. I picked it up last weekend because I needed to put together a very quick web application for work, and I'd previously considered doing it in Clojure, but was dissuaded because it looked like there wa

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-20 Thread Adrian Mowat
Hi Laurent If you are making the switch from OO then I recommend https://leanpub.com/fp-oo Cheers Adrian -- 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

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-19 Thread Earl Jenkins
Like others have said it's not a beginners book, you definitely need to have learned clojure through another resource or maybe at the same time if your brain will allow. I will say it's worth the buy, currently there aren't many web development books for clojure which cover topics for someone ne

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-19 Thread Mark Engelberg
It's certainly not comprehensive, but it's a nice little overview of ring and luminus development. -- 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 moder

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-19 Thread dcwhatthe
I've accepted that no book will help me, to learn a new language. There are always show-stoppers (unexpected errors) with the tools that a book recommends, including Lighttable or the Intellij La Clojure plugin or just about all the others, except for Clooj (so far). If I (using myself as the

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-19 Thread Erlis Vidal
Thanks for the suggestions. Ton of good information in a couple of emails. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Manuel Paccagnella < manuel.paccagne...@gmail.com> wrote: > My perspective: I'm reading that book and seems good so far but I'm not a > complete newbie and I've already used Clojure for w

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-19 Thread Manuel Paccagnella
My perspective: I'm reading that book and seems good so far but I'm not a complete newbie and I've already used Clojure for writing some (small) web applications. If you want a more beginner-friendly introduction before delving into web programming, I've found very good these books: * [Clojure

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-19 Thread tao
It’s a great book, but require you to play with the code when you read the book. -- tao Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Laurent Droin wrote: > For what it worth... I bought this book because I thought it would be a great > wa

Re: Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-19 Thread Laurent Droin
For what it worth... I bought this book because I thought it would be a great way for me to learn Clojure. I am familiar with web frameworks such as Rails and Play, but didn't know much about Clojure. Unfortunately, it proved too difficult for me to follow because Clojure is way different from i

Do you recommend the book: "Web Development with Clojure"

2014-02-19 Thread Erlis Vidal
Hi all, Have any of you read the book *Web Development with Clojure*? http://www.amazon.com/Web-Development-Clojure-Build-Bulletproof/dp/1937785645 There's only one review on amazon, and it's a fantastic review but I'm wondering if this is the book I should read if I wanted to start using Clojur