Clojure Course

This course is inspired by and borrows from the excellent Clojure Mooc by the by the CS department of University of Helsinki.

Focuses on:

• use the repl for fast learning feedback.
• writing human friendly code from the start
• avoiding clojure's pain points
• uses familiar problem domains

Setup

• Join Clojurians on Slack. (most important step - google then ask on beginners if you get stuck at any point)

• Get Git

• get the repo: git clone https://github.com/peter-wilkins-mayden/clojure-course.git

• Get Leiningen

Editors - the instructions in the chapters assume cursive but if you prefer another and know how to repl already use whatever you want

• Get Intellij Community Edition
• Get Cursive

Alternatively if you don't want to install an IDE: Nightlight (an editor that runs inside the same process and has an insta-repl)

• Add
  {:user {:plugins [[nightlight/lein-nightlight "RELEASE"]]}} to your ~/.lein/profiles.clj

• Then, in your project do lein nightlight it will tell you where to open your browser

Recommended Order for Exercises:

• src/thread-the-needle.clj
• src/p-p-p-pokerface.clj
• src/specter-gadget.clj
• src/composing-transducers.clj

Work in progress - if you find any issues or have any suggestions please leave an issue.