Slashdot Book Reviews: Programming Clojure

JoC is for deeper understanding, Programming Clojure is for breadth and basic understanding to get you going in the first place. They, or maybe (depending on how it turns out) Clojure in Action are companion pieces to each other. On it's own JoC would be a decent book, but it really feels like one to take you the next steps AFTER you already have a foundation in the language from which to build.

Re: Slashdot Book Reviews: Programming Clojure

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Post by vyksyt » Mon, May 17, 2010, 8:52 PM UTC

johnswamps wrote: post #5

Does anyone know how it compares to The Joy of Clojure (I realize it's not done yet)?

(I'm on the Manning Early Access programs for the new Clj books, so been reading through the chapters as they come up)

Programming Clojure is an introductory book that provides an overview of the language and its functional heritage/constructs. I'd say its the "First" Clojure book.

JoC is the next step - it does offer a good look into Clojure, but from Ch 7, aims to go deeper into higher level constructs - macros, protocols, reify et al as well as concurrency. There's a lot of new 1.2 stuff that wasn't developen when PC came out.

The third book, Clojure in Action, is going to be excellent insight into the very practical, deployment, editing and interfacing aspects of the language. (Things like DSLs, web services, et al).

Re: Slashdot Book Reviews: Programming Clojure

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Post by tzs » Mon, May 17, 2010, 9:41 PM UTC

Anyone else dislike the use of 'recur' to indicate iteration?

Re: Slashdot Book Reviews: Programming Clojure

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Post by jrockway » Mon, May 17, 2010, 10:54 PM UTC

tzs wrote: post #9

Anyone else dislike the use of 'recur' to indicate iteration?

Anyone else dislike the color #ff0f93 more than #ff0e95?