>> Do you have any resources or books that help with such things? (Taking >> a problem and solving it the way you did) > > I think, my suggestions are not specific to clojure, but they apply to > any functional language. All of them have functions for filtering > sequences, applying a function to each item, reducing, and so on. Once > you know these basic functions, most computation can be expressed by > composing these in some way. I can only speak for me personally, but I found it useful going through the excellent books the CLisp and Scheme community provide. Peter Seibels Practical Common Lisp and The Little Schemer, The Seasoned Schemer, and of course SICP not only teach you how to use a Lisp which is 'simpler' than Clojure (not in terms of syntax) - this is especially true for Scheme (not so much CLisp) but they also teach you how to recognise certain patterns that occur in functional programs. Once you know how those patterns match to the sequence functions you can start replacing them and writing more concise code. That was my path anyway and I'm still learning :) It's fun though, don't get frustrated :) This community is very helpful so don't hesitate and ask. There's no dumb questions, you know the saying. Andreas
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