Re: practice for learning clojure

2014-07-11 Thread Alex P
You can check out Defworkshop repository: https://github.com/defworkshop/defworkshop and start by simply implementing everything from simple functions further down the line. We also have complimentary slides here: https://speakerdeck.com/defworkshop Hope that helps On Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Re: practice for learning clojure

2014-07-10 Thread Gregg Williams
A web search turned up the following: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3628958/good-clojure-code-examples https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/U6fLpc_NO98 I have heard from more than one source that the clojure.core source code is good to read. Maybe I'll get around to it myself

practice for learning clojure

2014-05-27 Thread Randy Chiu
Hi all, I'm new to clojure and want to find some suggestion for learning clojure. I googled some project about how to learn clojure but without any perfect answers until now. I worked on linux kernel in last several years mainly with C, and I'm recently interested in lisp. I try to read some

Re: practice for learning clojure

2014-05-27 Thread PlĂ­nio Balduino
Hi, Randy ClojureDocs has lots of examples with documentation, 4clojure and Clojure Koans are excellent start points and you can learn a lot reading the Clojure portion of Clojure source code. Regards Plinio Balduino 11 982 611 487 On 27/05/2014, at 08:58, Randy Chiu randyqi...@gmail.com

Re: practice for learning clojure

2014-05-27 Thread Gregg Williams
Hi, Randy, I'm several years into learning Clojure. Here's what has worked for me: * Use either Light Table or (if you're determined) Emacs as your IDE. * I learned a lot from taking this free online course: http://iloveponies.github.io/120-hour-epic-sax-marathon/index.html * I have *all* the

Re: practice for learning clojure

2014-05-27 Thread Randy Chiu
Hi Gregg, Your suggestion is very good and explicit,thanks for your response. I'd like to ask you another question since you mentioned : spend *a lot* of time studying other people's solutions, looking at both the factors of elegance and readability in solutions. do you have any good