Living Clojure: An Introduction and Training Plan for Developers

Living Clojure: An Introduction and Training Plan for Developers

<div><p>If you€re an experienced programmer who has not worked with Clojure before, this guide is the perfect thorough but gentle introduction for you. Author Carin Meier not only provides a practical overview of this JVM language and its functional programming concepts, but also includes a complete hands-on training course to help you learn Clojure in a structured way.</p><p>The first half of the book takes you through Clojure€s unique design and lets you try your hand at two Clojure projects, including a web app. The holistic course in second half provides you with critical tools and resources, including ways to plug into the Clojure community.</p><ul><li>Understand the basic structure of a Clojure expression</li><li>Learn how to shape and control code in a functional way</li><li>Discover how Clojure handles real-world state and concurrency</li><li>Take advantage of Java classes and learn how Clojure handles polymorphism</li><li>Manage and use libraries in a Clojure project</li><li>Use the core.async library for asynchronous and concurrent communication</li><li>Explore the power of macros in Clojure programming</li><li>Learn how to think in Clojure by following the book€s seven-week training course</li></ul></div>