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Nice work. Assuming you're trying to advocate Clojure, I'd recommend changing your tutorial to make things look easy (as opposed to highlighting gotchas). I re
by ggruschow 16y ago
Nice work.
Assuming you're trying to advocate Clojure, I'd recommend changing your tutorial to make things look easy (as opposed to highlighting gotchas). I recommend doing math examples first. Show how it makes a good calculator, but avoid discussion of ratios. That's (unnecessarily) confusing.. just like everything in the hello world example starting from the nil output on.
By the time I got to the sequence page, I just hit next to see if there was anything else of interest. I'd already gotten the strong impression this new language would just make my life harder. Worst of all though was when I flubbed up and typed (/4 3) rather than (/ 4 3).
- jf 16y agoThe person who submitted this link isn't the author of TryClojure. http://tryclj.licenser.net/ http://tryclj.licenser.net/ and http://www.try-clojure.org/ http://www.try-clojure.org/ both point to the same IP. And both domains are registered to Heinz Gies - who I assume is the original author of TryClojure.
- devin 16y agoRaynes and Licenser (Heinz) have both worked on their own version of tryclojure but are collaborating on this version if I understand correctly. I'm not sure how they'll feel about this being posted early, but either way, pretty neat.
- Rayne 16y agoActually, I'm mostly the author of try-clojure. Heinz hosts it for me and collaborates, but I'm the majority author.
- Rayne 16y agoI don't know if you noticed, but I tried to be very explicit about the fact that the tutorial is nowhere near finished. I wrote that up in 1 hour yesterday. I'm well aware that it needs filling in with less difficult stuff. I intend to start serious work on it today. Also, I'm trying to get Michael Fogus (author of Joy of Clojure) to write the tutorial. If he decides to do so, I can almost promise you quality. ;)
- ggruschow 16y agoI just meant to be offering constructive feedback. The tutorial was useful for me. It's certainly way better than the tutorial I had before you wrote it! It's pretty impressive for an hour of work.
- Rayne 16y agoI appreciate the feedback! I didn't take any offense to what you said. :) I'm not entirely certain I'm qualified to write a Clojure tutorial anyway, which is why I hope Michael is interested.