Re: small project to learn clojure

2011-09-18 Thread Zack Maril
Confession:The best way I have found to learn a language is to pick a girl and make something that impresses her. When I was learning to use Node.js, I made a chat room for my girlfriend and I to talk in when we doing a long distance relationship. It had a sassy robot that pulled pictures of

Re: small project to learn clojure

2011-09-18 Thread Andreas Kostler
If Robocode is fun to you, why not do that then: http://nakkaya.com/2010/07/06/controlling-robocode-engine-from-clojure/ http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2009/05/clojure-and-robocode.html There's also been a thread on this group about the same topic a while ago. Hope this helps Andreas On 19 September

Re: small project to learn clojure

2011-09-17 Thread Dennis Haupt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i DID care about my robot :) Am 17.09.2011 04:57, schrieb Alan Malloy: Notice something you do often, and try to automate it. Or find an open- source project you use, and you wish were better in some way, and improve it. Learning a language by

Re: small project to learn clojure

2011-09-17 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 09/16/2011 11:50 PM, Dennis Haupt wrote: i feel compelled to do something more complex in clojure. not too big, but bigger than what fits in 100 lines and offers some chances to use macros. it should also be fun, maybe something like robocode. Something that is not primitive but may stay

small project to learn clojure

2011-09-16 Thread Dennis Haupt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi community, i feel compelled to do something more complex in clojure. not too big, but bigger than what fits in 100 lines and offers some chances to use macros. it should also be fun, maybe something like robocode. - -- -BEGIN PGP

Re: small project to learn clojure

2011-09-16 Thread Alan Malloy
Notice something you do often, and try to automate it. Or find an open- source project you use, and you wish were better in some way, and improve it. Learning a language by means of I need to learn something, what should I do is not as effective, or as fun, as learning it by doing something you