Is there a wiki where all these info sources could be collected please? Sounds really quite useful to the newbie.
regards On 27 May 2010 20:06, nickikt <nick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hallo, > > What real helped me to start thinking in "The Clojure Way" are the > Talks that Rich gave. You can find some of them here > http://clojure.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc > > I think you should check out the "Clojure for Lisp Porgrammers Part 1 > and 2". In talks he goes deeper because he does not have to explain al > the Basics of Lisp (like he head to in "Clojure for Java Programmer") > > The others like "Clojure Sequences", "Clojure Data Structures" or > "Clojure Concurrency" and the really interesting too. > > Then there are a couple of talks online on InfoQ. Here some links I > looked up but there is more. > > http://www.infoq.com/interviews/hickey-clojure > http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey > > > On 27 Mai, 13:53, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm new to Clojure, and looking for the best way to get going. I've >> got a pretty broad experience of various programming languages (C, >> Python, Lua, Factor, JavaScript, Haskell, Perl, ...) including a bit >> of experience with Lisp-like languages, so the language itself isn't >> likely to be a huge problem for me. But I've no background with Java >> (beyond a few "toy" programs, and knowing the syntax) so the >> environment (classpaths, compiling, where to find libraries, >> performance, JVMs, etc) is pretty much a mystery to me. >> >> I've browsed a bit online, read some of the wikibook articles, and >> Mark Volkmann's excellent summary, but I'd like to dig a bit deeper >> (as I say, particularly around libraries and environment, less on how >> to program in a lisp-like language). Ideally, in a form that I can >> read offline (printable/PDF documents, or books) as I've got limited >> free time I can spend in front of a computer screen. I've got a sample >> program I have tried porting from Python - the experience was >> interesting, but limited (the core of the relatively complex >> multithreaded database monitoring process converted to 47 lines of >> Clojure...!!!) >> >> Has anybody got any good suggestions as to where I should go next? >> I've considered getting one of the Manning books (The Joy of Clojure >> or Clojure in Action) but I'm not sure which would be better for me - >> they seem broadly similar, with Clojure in Action looking like a >> slightly better fit for my needs, but I'd appreciate any >> comments/recommendations). Also, I wonder whether there's some >> Java-based documentation that would be worth my while investigating. I >> suspect that it'd be very easy to get sucked into a huge amount of >> detail which is only tangentially related at best, but I'm sure an >> overview would help. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions, >> Paul. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
