Do I have to have knowlegde about Lisp

2014-03-10 Thread Roelof Wobben
Hello, I like the idea of Clojure but I wonder if I have to know a lot of Lisp to work with Clojure. What is the best way to go from a absolute beginner to someone who can work with Clojure. Roelof -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group.

Re: Do I have to have knowlegde about Lisp

2014-03-10 Thread Dennis Haupt
you can learn clojure without learning lisp first :) 2014-03-10 15:41 GMT+01:00 Roelof Wobben rwob...@hotmail.com: Hello, I like the idea of Clojure but I wonder if I have to know a lot of Lisp to work with Clojure. What is the best way to go from a absolute beginner to someone who can

Re: Do I have to have knowlegde about Lisp

2014-03-10 Thread Moritz Ulrich
It might actually be counter-productive to learn Common Lisp before Clojure, as Clojure is so much simpler easier to learn/understand than Common Lisp. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Dennis Haupt d.haup...@gmail.com wrote: you can learn clojure without learning lisp first :) 2014-03-10

Re: Do I have to have knowlegde about Lisp

2014-03-10 Thread Gary Trakhman
1. Read a good book. 'Clojure Programming' has a good reputation. 'Joy of Clojure' is a good second book. 2. Do some small examples, 4clojure is great for this. 3. Build up larger programs from smaller chunks. Learning another lisp at the same time is going to distract more than help, clojure

Re: Do I have to have knowlegde about Lisp

2014-03-10 Thread Thomas
Roelof, I wanted to learn Lisp for a lng time (maybe even 10 year +) tried common Lips once or twice, but failed miserably. But it was Clojure that really got me going. Watch the various video's that Rich Hickey did that are on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/user/ClojureTV) if you don't

Re: Do I have to have knowlegde about Lisp

2014-03-10 Thread Jacob Goodson
Let me rephrase your question to show you something... Should I learn LISP in order to learn LISP... Clojure is a dialect of LISP as is common lisp; when you learn Clojure you are learning LISP. Clojure has its opinions about how to do its list processing, however, all other list processing

Re: Do I have to have knowlegde about Lisp

2014-03-10 Thread Roelof Wobben
Op maandag 10 maart 2014 15:41:12 UTC+1 schreef Roelof Wobben: Hello, I like the idea of Clojure but I wonder if I have to know a lot of Lisp to work with Clojure. What is the best way to go from a absolute beginner to someone who can work with Clojure. Roelof -- You received

Re: Do I have to have knowlegde about Lisp

2014-03-10 Thread Shantanu Kumar
On Monday, 10 March 2014 20:11:12 UTC+5:30, Roelof Wobben wrote: Hello, I like the idea of Clojure but I wonder if I have to know a lot of Lisp to work with Clojure. What is the best way to go from a absolute beginner to someone who can work with Clojure. To have a quick feel of

Re: Do I have to have knowlegde about Lisp

2014-03-10 Thread Benedict Apuna
I'm still a beginner with Clojure so I can't give any definite answers. For what it's worth, I've been working through both Clojure from the ground uphttp://aphyr.com/posts/301-clojure-from-the-ground-up-welcomeand Clojure for the Brave and True http://www.braveclojure.com/, and I'm finding

Re: Do I have to have knowlegde about Lisp

2014-03-10 Thread Karsten Schmidt
May I also chip in with a 15k word intro tutorial I've co-written (and whose upcoming part 2 is focused on Quil): http://www.creativeapplications.net/tutorials/introduction-to-clojure-part-1/ On 10 March 2014 20:19, Benedict Apuna benedict.ap...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still a beginner with