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This book is my attempt to make Clojure more accessible for newcomers. The book teaches at a digestible pace the syntax and the main concepts of the language, i
by viebel 7y ago
This book is my attempt to make Clojure more accessible for newcomers.
The book teaches at a digestible pace the syntax and the main concepts of the language, in particular data immutability which is at the core of the language.
This is part of a "Get Programming" series by Manning, which means that the reader is guided from concrete to abstract until the ideas are fully integrated.
This book takes a pragmatic down to earth approach:
- Lots of code snippets in each Lesson
- Several exercises at the end of each Lesson
- A Capstone Project at the end of each Unit
The book is in MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) stage which means that for now only the digital version is available and 5 out of 16 Units are published. (When a new Unit is published, the reader gets notified.)
Hopefully you'd find interest in this book whether you are a Clojure beginner and want to learn the basics of Clojure in a structured way or a Clojure experienced developer and want to help your friends or teammates in their Clojure journey.
I am very interested in hearing comments (in particular improvement suggestions) both about the approach and the realisation.
- tomcam 7y agoI wish it took a pragmatic down-to-earth approach to presenting information, considering it’s illegible.
- viebel 7y agoWhat would be, in your opinion, a down-to-earth approach to presenting information?
- kranner 7y agoNot GP, but a PDF excerpt on your website works for most people. In this case if Manning will allow it.
- viebel 7y agoI will check with Manning if they allow me to have a PDF excerpt on my website
- viebel 7y agoManning allowed me to provide in pdf the Unit 0 and Unit 1. Unit 0: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/8165fc_091580b11bc742c8830d29b8ebe6eac7.pdf https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/8165fc_091580b11bc742c8830d29... Unit 1: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/8165fc_a165a000ec444796b7e63c290353966e.pdf https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/8165fc_a165a000ec444796b7e63c...
- kranner 7y agoGreat!
- tomcam 7y agoFree PDF sample. I buy lots of books every year and I hope you sell many. But this method of obfuscation felt like an insult.
- dustingetz 7y agocongrats on the launch!
- sansnomme 7y agoOP @viebel is the inventor of Klipse, highly recommend everyone try it out! Really great integration of multiple programming languages into a simple front end API.
- viebel 7y agoHere is the link to Klipse on github: https://github.com/viebel/klipse https://github.com/viebel/klipse Klipse is a Javacript plugin for embedding interactive code snippets in tech blogs. And here is a link to my blog where I make an extensive usage of Klipse to embed interactive code snippets into my articles.