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Sorry for the off topic. Any good recommendations for a Clojure book for a seasoned programmer but with little exposure to Lisps?
by noncoml 7y ago
Sorry for the off topic.
Any good recommendations for a Clojure book for a seasoned programmer but with little exposure to Lisps?
- goostavos 7y agoJoy of Clojure is my favorite whirl wind tour of the language. I generally suggest also pairing it with Clojure Applied, which deals with the larger "assembling the pieces into a whole" side of things.
- manishsharan 7y agoI bought Clojure in Action and The Joy of Clojure , both from Manning. I found Clojure in Action to be better suited to me as I too had little exposure to Lisps. Everybody raves about Joy of Clojure but it did not work for me. But now my favourite book is Clojure for the Brave and True -- it is awesome and fun.
- ashton314 7y agoI taught myself Clojure with [Clojure for the Brave and True](https://www.braveclojure.com https://www.braveclojure.com). It's a silly (free) online resource. I grew up learning Common Lisp and Scheme, and it was really easy for me to get into. That just meant I skipped the first chapter. It quickly got into doing things the Clojure Way™ and how to leverage its strengths. Highly recommended.
- gleenn 7y agoI second this resource, it's well explained and was also concise enough so that I actually finished it. Definitely covers the the important bits and a lot of advanced bits like macros and atoms, etc.
- pixelperfect 7y agoGetting Clojure by Russ Olsen. It's the most recently published of the introductory Clojure books and imo the best written.
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- vbuwivbiu 7y agohttps://leanpub.com/elementsofclojure https://leanpub.com/elementsofclojure
- simongray 7y agoThat is a great book, but it doesn't introduce the language at all.
- billfruit 7y agoI am thinking the onerous part of learning to use Clojure is not the lisp parts but the Java/JVM part, to the point I felt, if one is new to Java/JVM it is very difficult to use Clojure.