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The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access
- aroemers 14y agoMore info on what will be new can be found at http://blog.fogus.me/2013/02/08/moar-joy/ http://blog.fogus.me/2013/02/08/moar-joy/ and http://www.joyofclojure.com/2nd http://www.joyofclojure.com/2nd
- avparker 14y agoThanks aroemers. I didn't realise this had previously been announced. I've updated the title to indicate that the news is actually that the Early Access edition is now available for purchase.
- trailfox 14y agoIf you're subscribed to manning daily deal email there's a 50% discount code for this book (and some scala books) that they seem to be sending today.
- juskrey 14y agoAlready sent?
- avparker 14y agoYeah, it's today's "deal of the day", and you can also save on "Clojure in Action, Second Edition" and "Functional Programming in Scala". There's also a week-long coupon to celebrate the launch, and that includes a much larger list of books that you can save on, which is probably what trailfox is talking about.
- trailfox 14y agoDiscount code of: joc2elaunch50 Works for: Scala in Depth Scala in Action Akka in Action Clojure in Action, Second Edition Functional Programming in Scala Play for Scala Play for Java Lift in Action DSLs in Action The Well-Grounded Java Developer Real World Functional Programming F# Deep Dives Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Third-Party JavaScript
- y3di 14y agoAw, I just got the old version a few weeks ago.
- lani 14y agoordered the JoC 1 on monday : )
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- fogus 14y agoHi all, one of the authors here. If you'd like to buy the early access edition then Manning has a 50% off deal today with code dotd0314tw. You have to order it through their website, that can be accessed via http://www.joyofclojure.com/buy http://www.joyofclojure.com/buy even better apparently is the code joc2elaunch50 allowing discounts for a bunch of books
- juskrey 14y agoapparently they have some automatic coupons, "dotd0314" worked for me, and they have it every day.. (no-brainer numbers)
- fogus 14y agoWe realize that we're not about to get rich off of this book, so we'd prefer that the coupons disseminate far and wide. :-)
- juskrey 14y agoWell, >30$ book prices usually direct me to search reading elsewhere, books under 20$ usually get to my pocket in 5 seconds without hesitating. Glad to be your early reader.
- xaritas 14y agoHi everybody! I'm a, uh, book junkie too. It's been seven days since I last bought. I used to keep myself strung out on Manning Deal of the Day emails to keep the buzz from the last purchase going. But then I discovered that O'Reilly's Safari books online also has Manning... and No Starch Press (the Learn You a Haskell/Erlang guys) in addition to several historically terrible publishers. But with O'Reilly, Manning and No Starch I haven't felt the need to buy. Except for Two Scoops of Django, dammit. Downsides: no early access (it seems) and no physical books, which I love. But seriously, if you have a habit, it seems like a good deal. I just signed up for the 10 day trial and I'm loving it so far. Disclaimer: No disclaimer, just a happy habitual book buyer.
- c0mpute 14y agoAnyone knows how this series compares to the also-recently-announced Clojure in Action - http://www.manning.com/rathore2/ http://www.manning.com/rathore2/ I mean compare the two clojure books wrt v1.
- tomku 14y agoJoy of Clojure is about understanding the philosophy of Clojure, and using the language's built-in abstractions in an idiomatic way. It's not really a "first book on Clojure" for someone that doesn't know the language at all, but if you know the basics you can use it to solidify your understanding. Clojure in Action is more of a practical, get-shit-done book. It covers things like databases, web frameworks, TDD and message queues in the context of Clojure. It also has a brief introduction to the language itself and some coverage of functional programming idioms, but the focus is more strongly on real-world usage rather than deep understanding.
- c0mpute 14y agoThank you, that is a helpful description. So for a Clojure noob (like me) it might be better to start with Clojure in Action and then read Joy of Clojure.
- chongli 14y agoJoy of Clojure is worth revisiting after you've gained enough experience to be confident in writing Clojure code.
- nickbarnwell 14y agoI started with Clojure about six months ago now and currently use it for all personal projects and day-to-day as part of my course of studies. I started with Joy of Clojure and found it hard to wrap my head around - it's commonly recommended you read it as your second book on Clojure, and it quickly became apparent to me why :) I jumped over to Clojure Programming and things immediately started to click in a way they'd not with JoC; after a couple thousand more lines of code and a few tens of 4clojure problems, I reread fogus, et al's work and had a much better time of it.
- _pmf_ 14y agoI bought the E-Book for the last edition via Manning. Paying works fine, but accessing content has been a really crappy experience. The book itself had the particularly annoying section 13 that caters to certain fads (DSLs and Java bashing, pseudo-philosophical musings about functional programming). I hope this juvenile drivel will be left out in the new edition; if I want to read content-less feel-good articles, there is no shortage of free content. I remember that the sections on namespaces and destructuring have been really nice.
- joshuacc 14y agoAre mobi/epub versions available yet? From what I could tell, it's only the PDF version?
- avparker 14y agoNormally the Manning books are PDF while the book is pre-release (MEAP), and then after publication the epub/mobi/pdf is released.
- tomku 14y agoSeems like they've had a recent push to do MEAPs in ePub/Mobi as well. Out of the 10 MEAPs I'm following at the moment (addict ;;), eight have full PDF/ePub/Mobi and two are only available as PDF.
- juskrey 14y agoavailable
- miloshadzic 14y agoThe MEAP is available as EPUB as well and looks good. I just loaded it up in Readmill.
- krosaen 14y agoGreat to see this updated for 1.5. Aside from that and some treatment of clojurescript, are there other updates from the first edition that might push a 1st edition owner to buy this one too?
- fogus 14y agoA couple topics that we plan to cover, besides the 1.5 additions and changes and ClojureScript, are logic programming and data-driven development. We talked a little about the latter in the 1st edition, but it'll be front and center in the 2nd.
- krosaen 14y agoYou had me at 'logic programming' :)
- dkersten 14y agoAlready have a print copy of the first edition, but ordered this too. Looking forward to the logic and data oriented programming content!
- runevault 14y agoJust grabbed my copy of 2nd, already had a copy of the 1st edition which I loved, so excited to see the updates both in terms of changes for 1.5, the clojurescript stuff, and logic programming. Happy times :)
- rcb 14y agoI purchased JOC 2e two days ago.. The 1st was such an excellent book. Thank you fogus, chouser, and Manning!
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