Again, that's the job of a REPL. If you're taking a spelling test in school and they ask you to spell "butterfly" and you write "treadmill"... sure, you've writ

Again, that's the job of a REPL. If you're taking a spelling test in school and they ask you to spell "butterfly" and you write "treadmill"... sure, you've written a word correctly, congratulations. You still failed because you didn't write the correct word, and writing the correct word was the entire point of the exercise. If your boss tells you to write a landing page and you write a Twitter clone, hey congrats you did a great job. Now you're fired because you didn't do what you were specifically told to do. There is a time and a place for exploration and the first step of a tutorial is not that time or place. It is the time for following directions, otherwise the rest of the tutorial will not work and you will be frustrated. This is a tutorial, not a playground. Here's what you're looking for: https://repl.it/languages/clojure https://repl.it/languages/clojure