Hi everyone, I didn't give up yet...lol
Another cool intro to Closure and free for future users... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A9qsaZZefw&list=PLAC43CFB134E85266 If you guys know more resources, please let me know... Thanks. P.S: I will start a new thread soon about installing on Windows 10 pure or with WSL and to run Intellij IDE/Cursive on WSL with lein. Em domingo, 10 de março de 2019 16:37:24 UTC-3, Eric Calonico escreveu: > > 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 <clo...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of >> Eric Calonico <eric.calo...@gmail.com> >> *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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