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4Clojure is really fun! Reading just the book by itself got boring for me and I thoroughly enjoyed working through the problems side-by-side! Thanks to everyone

4Clojure is really fun! Reading just the book by itself got boring for me and I thoroughly enjoyed working through the problems side-by-side! Thanks to everyone who contributed to it. Another thing that I found great for practice was Advent of Code[0]. The exercises are more challenging and most of them lend themselves really well to the conciseness and elegance of Clojure collections. The reddit community[1] is also helpful and even if you can't crack the algorithm, porting someone else's solution to Clojure is a valuable & fun exercise. [0] - https://adventofcode.com/ https://adventofcode.com/ [1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/ https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/

modalduality 9y ago
In addition to 4Clojure, I found the Brave Clojure book (https://www.braveclojure.com/ https://www.braveclojure.com/) helpful for understanding how to structure programs in a "Clojure-y" way, e.g., to a greater extent than OOP representing data in lists and maps instead of structured classes, or using the "nil" value effectively when chaining functions together, almost like the Maybe monad.
AlexCoventry 9y ago
I agree. For someone with a math background and not much algorithms training, the 4clojure exercises were just the ticket for me when i worked through term in 2013. Whoever wrote them put a lot of effort into breaking them into informative chunks.
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nathell 9y ago
> Thanks to everyone who contributed to it. One of these people was Anthony Grimes (Raynes), who had prematurely passed away last year. I take this moment to reflect on his memory.
solaxun 9y ago
I found 4clojure great when starting out as well. I am definitely more of a 'hands on' learner, so these exercises were great for me. However my absolute favorite language agnostic tool for learning, like you, is Advent of Code. I try to go through all 25 whenever I'm learning a new language, and sure enough by the time I get to the last one, I pretty much know what I need to know.

modalduality 9y ago

In addition to 4Clojure, I found the Brave Clojure book (https://www.braveclojure.com/ https://www.braveclojure.com/) helpful for understanding how to structure programs in a "Clojure-y" way, e.g., to a greater extent than OOP representing data in lists and maps instead of structured classes, or using the "nil" value effectively when chaining functions together, almost like the Maybe monad.

AlexCoventry 9y ago

I agree. For someone with a math background and not much algorithms training, the 4clojure exercises were just the ticket for me when i worked through term in 2013. Whoever wrote them put a lot of effort into breaking them into informative chunks.

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nathell 9y ago

> Thanks to everyone who contributed to it. One of these people was Anthony Grimes (Raynes), who had prematurely passed away last year. I take this moment to reflect on his memory.

solaxun 9y ago

I found 4clojure great when starting out as well. I am definitely more of a 'hands on' learner, so these exercises were great for me. However my absolute favorite language agnostic tool for learning, like you, is Advent of Code. I try to go through all 25 whenever I'm learning a new language, and sure enough by the time I get to the last one, I pretty much know what I need to know.