Clojure Programming

The Clojure language is a practical alternative for everyday programming that offers expressivity rivaling other dynamic languages like Ruby and Python, but allows you to seamlessly take advantage of Java libraries, services, and all of the resources of the JVM ecosystem This book helps you learn the fundamentals of Clojure with examples relating it to the languages you know already, in the domains and topics you work with every day See how this JVM language can help eliminate unnecessary complexity from your programming practice and open up new options for solving the most challenging problems Clojure Programming demonstrates the language s flexibility by showing how it can be used for common tasks like web programming and working with databases, up through demanding applications that require safe, effective concurrency and parallelism, data and statistical analysis, and This in depth look helps tie together the full Clojure development experience, from how to organize your project and an introduction to Clojure build tooling, to a tutorial on how to make the most of Clojure s REPL during development, and how to deploy your finished application in a cloud environment.Learn how to use Clojure without losing your investment in the Java platform Understand the advantages of Clojure as an efficient Lisp for the JVM See how Clojure is used today in several practical domains Discover how Clojure eliminates the need for many verbose and complicated design patterns Deploy large web applications across tens or hundreds of cloud nodes with Clojure Read Clojure Programming by Chas Emerick – kino-fada.fr In Clojure Programming Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, and Christophe Grand O Reilly, 2012 , the preface asks Who is this book for It s for a lot of people experienced JVM developers, curious Rubyists, dissatisfied Pythonistas Developers of all stripes that are looking to get introduced to, and become proficient in, Clojure I myself have been circling the Clojure drainpipe for a while now, very nearly getting completely suck...I think, that s now this is a best book about Clojure for novice It covers language in great details, mixing description of high level concepts with low level details of implementation, use patterns, etc.When I first started reading Clojure Programming, the first impression I had was that I ve never seen a programming language introduction try so hard to tell me that my programming skills are going to grow significantly as a result of learning this programming language This book is probably not for beginners, but working through this gives insights into why certain programming constructs work the way they do and how functional programming constructs fit with someone who is used to procedural an When I first started reading Clojure Programming, the first impression I had was that I ve never seen a programming language introduction try so hard to tell me that my programming skills are going to grow significantly as a result of learning this programming language This book is probably not for beginners, but working through this gives insights into why certain programming constructs work the way they do and how functional programming constructs fit with someone who is used to procedural and object oriented programming While the efforts it makes to declare its superiority towards other languages gets annoying, the practice in using the REPL actually helps me understand how to better use tools I use in other languages.My background is in scientific computing And whil...I often run into what you might call closet functional programmers people who seem to have a genuine interest in acquainting themselves with a new paradigm, but just can t manage to find the time to do it Some of those who do invest the time often end up on something like the Typeclassopedia 1 , where the combined force of jargon and type signatures kill whatever interest they began with.Thanks to Clojure Programming, though, I m happy to report that this will no longer be a problem This bo I often run into what you might call closet functional programmers people who seem to have a genuine interest in acquainting themselves with a new paradigm, but just can t manage to find the time to do it Some of those who do invest the time often end up on something like the Typeclassopedia 1 , where the combined force of jargon and type signatures kill whatever interest they began with.Thanks to Clojure Programming, though, I m happy to report that this will no longer be a problem This book gives hope to those who have championed Lisp and or functional programming in vain Emerick et al provide not only a thorough tour of the language, but also demonstrate the beauty and conciseness of its solutions to common p...Great introductory book on Clojure The breadth of topics covered was large, and the authors wrote in a clear and communicative way The early chapters cover wide swaths of ground in short time, striking a perfect balance between concise and thorough I especially liked the discussion of different reference types Clojure offers Elucidating examples and scenarios clarified the landscape perfectly.I also liked the later practical parts, involving some staples of Clojure ecosystem such as Ring, Co Great introductory book on Clojure The breadth of topics covered was large, and the authors wrote in a clear and communicative way The early chapters cover wide swaths of ground in short time, striking a perfect balance between concise and thorough I especially liked the discussion of different reference types Clojure offers Elucidating examples and scenarios clarified the landscape perfectly.I also liked the later practical parts, involving some staples of Clojure ecosystem such as Ring, Compojure and Korma This is something that I really missed in Learn You A Haskell for Great Good for example Even deployment to AWS was covered, something that is nearly universally absent even from other hands on books.On to the nitpicks.The book suffers a little bit from the constant overuse of forward and backward references, sometimes pointing to the very next page The order of the chapters is also weird macros are handled really early, well be...Note I literally only read this, I didn t work through any of the code I was expecting to want to pick up a keyboard, but most of the book didn t inspire me to do so I have some notes for bits to go back to though.This is muchcomprehensive than I was expecting, and covers muchground in Clojure than say Programming Ruby in Ruby A good chunk at the start was quite a mundane functional programming intro I got a little tired after a while of some of the insubstantial arguments agai Note I literally only read this, I didn t work through any of the code I was expecting to want to pick up a keyboard, but most of the book didn t inspire me to do so I have some notes for bits to go back to though.This is muchcomprehensive than I was expecting, and covers muchground in Clojure than say...Even though it took me quite a while to get through, I enjoyed thisthan I can remember enjoying any introductory computer language book in the past It is quite comprehensive, covering not only the core language but also several popular third party libraries The explanations are generally clear and, with a few exceptions, the examples do a great job of reinforcing the information in the text The emphasis is very much on building code to do real work, so the examples mostly stay away from Even though it took me quite a while to get through, I enjoyed thisthan I can remember enjoying any introductory computer language book in the past It is quite comprehensive, covering not only the core language but also several popular third party libraries The explanations are generally clear and, with a few exceptions, the examples do a great job of reinforcing the information in the text The emphasis is very much on building code to do real work, so the examples mostly stay away from the compute the prime factors kinds of algorithms that are ubiquitous in introductions to functional programming languages.The main reason I m rating it 4 stars instead of 5 in a number of places, core library functions are used in example code and n...Great pacing I like the order in which information was presented The author wet your appetite with some introductory programming material Then, he proceeded with covering the high level topics such as functional programming, homoiconicity, software transactional memory, and persistent data structures.The author certainly advocates for idiomatic Clojure without getting evangelical about it He is able to cover special forms, syntactic sugar, macros, object orientation, multi threading, and laz Great pacing I like the order in which information was presented The author wet your appetite with some introductory programming material Then, he proceeded with covering the high level topics such as functional programming, homoiconicity, software transactional memo...I found this a tremendously helpful book I recommend it to strong programmers who wish to learn clojure It is also a comprehensive book, and I m happy to put it down for the time being having read only the first four chapters I already have such a store of language features that I want to put to use and commit to practice without having to know thearcane corners of the language.My only quibble I wish there were something like a cheat sheet of the syntactical forms and key functions tuc I found this a tremendously helpful book I recommend it to strong programmers who wish to learn clojure It is also a comprehensive book, and I m happy to put it down for the time being having read only the first four chapters I already have such a store of language features that I want to put to use and commit to practice without having to know thearcane corners of the language.My only ...A great introductory Clojure book I didn t know a lick of Lisp before I started, but I feel pretty literate now that I ve finished It s a big book, but every chapter is either useful or interesting and often both.I do wish the second edition weresubstantial than just incorporating various errata, though.Side note If you need a Clojure editor and don t have a prior preference for a particular IDE base like IDEA or Eclispe, consider Light Table If you re feeling adventurous, we use thi A great introductory Clojure book I didn t know a lick of Lisp before I started, but I feel pretty literate now that I ve finished It s a big book, but every chapter is either us...

• English
• 18 April 2017
Chas Emerick
• Paperback
• 630 pages
• 1449394701
• Chas Emerick
• Clojure Programming