Hi, I've also started learning clojure a few months ago. I will tell you my story.
The most painful at the beginning was to find the right environment setup, in particular the IDE. Many Clojure professionals advice to use Emacs but I could not get up to speed with it so I dropped it. I come from Java land where I got used to Intellij Idea so after a few fails of trying Emacs, Atom, LightTable etc, I decided not to loose more time on playing with IDEs and stick to the known Idea with Cursive plugin and concentrate on learning the language itself. I started reading the mentioned "Clojure for the Brave and True" (which by the way also proposes to use Emacs) and it is a great book, but personally I like more to follow video tutorials. Recently I found this one https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsXu5srjNlxI7b2smnHxDeMMwR4mVZ2m and I liked it a lot. It's very concise and gives a good intro to Clojure. The next which I heard is quite good is a book titled "Living Clojure" but I have not read it yet. Instead, I went straight into ClojureScript because building sth visual is more motivating for me. I was also catched by it's advantages over Reactjs. Then again I got lost with an amount of different approaches to build websites (with Reagent, Ohm, Figwheel, using leiningen or just .edn project setup) I found this free course about Reagent which was helpful for me helpful https://www.jacekschae.com/learn-reagent-free Then I looked for some examples of project setup with leiningen and figwheel because it looks to me like this is a more productive way (or tell me if I'm wronged and there is sth better and more commonly used in prod apps?) and I found a nice Tetris game, which I'm analyzing at the moment - http://timothypratley.blogspot.com/2015/07/you-should-be-using-figwheelreagent.html?m=1 The next in more distant future on my list is to look at the real production web app built with ClojureScript - Circle CI, you can watch this video about it: https://youtu.be/LNtQPSUi1iQ Getting into the Clojure world is the most painful road from any roads to new programming language I had in the past but the elegance of the language and it's concepts make me feel motivated to take this effort. Good lack on your way and if you have found any good learning sources I'd be happy if you share with me :) On Sat, Mar 9, 2019, 10:16 PM Rick Mangi <r...@chartbeat.com> wrote: > Clojure is only a few years older than Elixr. > > I'd recommend https://www.braveclojure.com/ as a great online > book/tutorial as a starting point. > > Enjoy! > > RIck > > > On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 4:02 PM Matching Socks <phill.w...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Clojure is pretty simple. It works well. And nothing in it has ever >> been deprecated. In short, do not worry about finding a very new >> resource. 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