Exactly, Thiago. I just understood Clojure after dive into Clojure. The books helped a lot, but alone they are almost useless.
Plínio On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Thiago Massa <thiag...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you should care about learning the concepts involved in clojure > and functional programming in general. "Getting" clojure after you have > done some haskell, lisp or erlang is supposed to be a breeze, so you need > to get to the basics! > > I bet that most of the books will teach you almost the same thing with > different words, so as long they cover the main concepts of clojure like: > protocols, macros, concurrency... learning the in and outs of the language > is really up to you and one of the best ways of doing it is writing > clojure. So I advise you to just read whatever book cover looks best while > practicing on every piece of code the book shows you. > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Cecil Westerhof > <cldwester...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> 2014-04-22 20:32 GMT+02:00 Plínio Balduino <pbaldu...@gmail.com>: >> >> Some will say that Joy of Clojure is not the best choice for the newcomer. >>> >>> I read all the books more in your list more than once and had the better >>> comprehension with JoC. >>> The important thing is that I didn't get Clojure reading the first or >>> second book. I just really understood after read the five books (that I >>> call as "The Five Books of Clojure) and tried to create my own Lisp. >>> Anyway, once you get the "click", all these books will become a lot >>> easier to understand. >>> >> >> So the sequence in which I read the books is not very important? >> Formulated otherwise: no reason to switch from my original plan? >> >> >> >>> On 22/04/2014, at 15:18, Cecil Westerhof <cldwester...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I have a ‘little’ to learn. ;-) I have worked with a lot of languages, >>> including Lisp. I was thinking about the following books (in that order): >>> - Practical Clojure >>> - Clojure in Action >>> - The Joy of Clojure >>> - Clojure Programming >>> - Programming Clojure >>> >>> Someone told me it was better to start with Programming Clojure and >>> after that The Joy of Clojure. Any idea's about this? >>> >>> >> -- >> Cecil Westerhof >> >> -- >> 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 >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
