Thanks Sean!!! Em domingo, 10 de março de 2019 01:25:30 UTC-3, Sean Corfield escreveu: > > > Such a beautiful language with so few tutorials, Elixir and other newer > languages have so much video tutorials for the newcomers...I really don't > understand. > > > > Historically, Clojure’s main attraction has been for seasoned developers > so there hasn’t been much need or incentive to create tutorials aimed at > newcomers, especially folks who aren’t already professional software > developers, and especially the sort of video tutorials you are referring to > (which seem like a fairly new-ish phenomenon to me, regardless of language). > > > > I think that may change as Clojure gains more popularity and more reach. > Maybe. But it’s always going to be a fairly niche language. > > > > In addition to Eric’s purelyfunctional.tv, Jacek’s Reagent, and a few > others already mentioned, see if anything here helps: > http://www.learn-clojure.com/clojure_videos.html (mostly presentations > from conferences and user groups but also some links to tutorials/courses). > > > > Also check out Timothy Baldridge’s Clojure videos: > https://tbaldridge.pivotshare.com/home > > > > Regarding Windows, yes, it’s always been a second-class citizen for > Clojure development because all the early adopters were Mac/Linux users. > Windows versions of Leiningen and Boot took a while to appear. A Windows > version of the new CLI/`deps.edn` tooling is in alpha testing right now. > > > > Make sure you sign up for the Clojurians Slack (sign up > http://clojurians.net/ ) and/or the Clojurians Zulip > https://clojurians.zulipchat.com – both of these have active communities > who will be happy to help beginners getting up to speed. Slack is by far > the larger community but Zulip has a fully searchable archive (which Slack > lacks on the free plans – and most of the channels from Slack are mirrored > to Zulip now). > > > > Sean Corfield -- (970) FOR-SEAN -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* clo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> <clo...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>> on behalf of Eric Calonico <eric.calo...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> > *Sent:* Saturday, March 9, 2019 3:07:56 PM > *To:* Clojure > *Subject:* Re: Closure lang for newbies in 2019 > > Hi Marcin, I gree 110% with you!!! > > I am having the same problems and I agree 100% with you!! What's more, I > am on Windows...lol > > It's just too much work right now, not enough free tutorials and I am not > a professional programmer. > > I'd rather learn by video tutorials that's a weakness of mine...sorry. > > Such a beautiful language with so few tutorials, Elixir and other newer > languages have so much video tutorials for the newcomers...I really don't > understand. > > Even on the big platforms, Udemy, Pluralsight, Lynda, hard to find > tutorials... > > Thanks. > > > > Em sábado, 9 de março de 2019 19:49:48 UTC-3, Marcin Piczkowski escreveu: >> >> 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 <ri...@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...@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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