Re: Good Clojure Projects for the Classroom?
I run a Clojure study group at work and we generally work 4Clojure problems if nobody has a topic they want to present on. Today, however, we had a great time looking at some "open data" that's out there, specifically about the City of Chicago[1]. I challenged everyone to come up with one or more "questions" to ask the based on the data available and to find the answers using Clojure. We had a great time, beginners paired with more experienced developers. There are many similar data sets. One nice thing about this sort of project is you can size it very small or large depending on the skill level and the time available. You'd want to introduce them to a few libraries, like clj-http for REST API calls and Cheshire for JSON parsing. Maybe even Incanter or similar for data analysis (rabbit hole warning). Best of luck, John J. [1] https://data.cityofchicago.org/ On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 5:03:46 PM UTC-6, Eddie wrote: > > Recently I began teaching a college level course that uses Clojure. We > have made it through the lectures on the lisp syntax, the data types, > collections, and immutability. Now I would like to ask the students to > apply their new Clojure knowledge to a small project. (Something that could > be completed in about week if worked on for an hour a day). > > Does anyone know of any good resources for such projects? Any ideas are > much appreciated! > -- 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.
Re: Good Clojure Projects for the Classroom?
I taught similar course at a college. I gave exercises from 4clojure so that students can get used to writing clojure. Also I prepared few "home-made" problems: https://github.com/nbeloglazov/clojure-interactive-tasks. Though these are not projects that students do completely by themselves as they already have "ui" for problems and students have to only implement solution. But it might help to come up with your own ideas. Nikita On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 3:03:46 PM UTC-8, Eddie wrote: > > Recently I began teaching a college level course that uses Clojure. We > have made it through the lectures on the lisp syntax, the data types, > collections, and immutability. Now I would like to ask the students to > apply their new Clojure knowledge to a small project. (Something that could > be completed in about week if worked on for an hour a day). > > Does anyone know of any good resources for such projects? Any ideas are > much appreciated! > -- 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.
Good Clojure Projects for the Classroom?
Recently I began teaching a college level course that uses Clojure. We have made it through the lectures on the lisp syntax, the data types, collections, and immutability. Now I would like to ask the students to apply their new Clojure knowledge to a small project. (Something that could be completed in about week if worked on for an hour a day). Does anyone know of any good resources for such projects? Any ideas are much appreciated! -- 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.
