> Just what is it that you want to teach? Principles of computation, or > Clojure? Not the same. If the former, forget Clojure and give them a week > to work thru The Little Schemer. Then move on to clojure and the much more > complex stuff involved. >
I think you bring up a good point. I wonder if we all have one of 2 mental images of what people mean by a "Clojure intro class". Many probably mean something like a real corporate class where people are trying to train developers on Clojure to get real work done. I think more of the SICP/Scheme/MIT class where you have a lot of smart people with no programming experience and you want to give them a solid academic intro. I agree Scheme is great for that. However, what I find delicious is that Clojure is this ---->| |<------- close to being *both* a super practical language *and* a better/cleaner teaching language! This might surprise some but I actually think some things are more elegant in Clojure than Scheme! For example, I like "fn" over "lambda". Also, I like the seq abstraction over nested conses for the fundamental data structure. cs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
