Learn Clojure as a holiday project

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Post by edd_dumbill » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 4:23 PM UTC

Learn Clojure as a holiday project
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Re: Learn Clojure as a holiday project

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Post by edd_dumbill » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 4:28 PM UTC

This came out of me needing an excuse to write some Clojure, and wanting to model a simple coin-tossing game. What started as a guide to Clojure for busy programmers probably makes a right-sized holiday hacking project.

Re: Learn Clojure as a holiday project

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Post by Lio » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 5:22 PM UTC

edd_dumbill wrote: post #2

This came out of me needing an excuse to write some Clojure, and wanting to model a simple coin-tossing game. What started as a guide to Clojure for busy programmers probably makes a right-sized holiday hacking project.

Thanks for the article Edd. I've been meaning to have a go at Clojure since I started playing with Lisp/Scheme.

(One side point, that background is a little hard to read against; it actually started to give me a headache... :)

Re: Learn Clojure as a holiday project

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Post by jherdman » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 5:28 PM UTC

edd_dumbill wrote: post #2

This came out of me needing an excuse to write some Clojure, and wanting to model a simple coin-tossing game. What started as a guide to Clojure for busy programmers probably makes a right-sized holiday hacking project.

Sounds interesting, but... I think your site is down.

Re: Learn Clojure as a holiday project

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Post by edd_dumbill » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 5:30 PM UTC

Lio wrote: post #3

edd_dumbill wrote: post #2

This came out of me needing an excuse to write some Clojure, and wanting to model a simple coin-tossing game. What started as a guide to Clojure for busy programmers probably makes a right-sized holiday hacking project.

Thanks for the article Edd. I've been meaning to have a go at Clojure since I started playing with Lisp/Scheme. (One side point, that background is a little hard to read against; it actually started to give me a headache... :)

Thanks Lio. Let me know what you think. Also, I got rid of the background. Seems my evil plan to hypnotize the population of HN might not actually work out.

Re: Learn Clojure as a holiday project

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Post by edd_dumbill » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 5:31 PM UTC

jherdman wrote: post #4

edd_dumbill wrote: post #2

This came out of me needing an excuse to write some Clojure, and wanting to model a simple coin-tossing game. What started as a guide to Clojure for busy programmers probably makes a right-sized holiday hacking project.

Sounds interesting, but... I think your site is down.

Working here. Try again? It's hosted on Tumblr.

Re: Learn Clojure as a holiday project

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Post by jherdman » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 5:47 PM UTC

edd_dumbill wrote: post #6

jherdman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds interesting, but... I think your site is down.

Working here. Try again? It's hosted on Tumblr.

Still boned. I'll try again later. I'm looking forward to it!

Re: Learn Clojure as a holiday project

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Post by uniclaude » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 5:51 PM UTC

edd_dumbill wrote: post #5

Lio wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the article Edd. I've been meaning to have a go at Clojure since I started playing with Lisp/Scheme. (One side point, that background is a little hard to read against; it actually started to give me a headache... :)

Thanks Lio. Let me know what you think. Also, I got rid of the background. Seems my evil plan to hypnotize the population of HN might not actually work out.

This shade of grey is way better than the previous background to me. Thanks !

Re: Learn Clojure as a holiday project

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Post by tednaleid » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 7:19 PM UTC

edd_dumbill wrote: post #2

This came out of me needing an excuse to write some Clojure, and wanting to model a simple coin-tossing game. What started as a guide to Clojure for busy programmers probably makes a right-sized holiday hacking project.

I'm just diving into clojure now and have finally gotten my vim environment set up with a working repl (war scars here for vim users trying to get going: http://naleid.com/blog/2011/12/19/getting-a-clojure-repl-in-...)

This is exactly the kind of next step I was looking for beyond the 4clojure and clojure koans stuff. I'll be working through it this weekend. Thanks!

Re: Learn Clojure as a holiday project

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Post by SonySeng » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 7:54 PM UTC

I just read through this at work (Slow day before Holidays). Very nice. I've also been going through The Joy of Clojure as a beginner book to lisp and small projects like this are very helpful. I learn the same way. If something seems daunting or if something seems trivial, I am not as motivated. There is a good balance that I have to find.