I recommend reading a book about lisp. I liked land of lisp: http://landoflisp.com/
Practical common lisp should be good as well: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ Some more: http://www.cliki.net/Lisp%20books When you have an understanding of lisp, you can move on to clojure. Practical clojure works well for introducing clojure, and it also works well as a reference. http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Clojure-Experts-Voice-Source/dp/1430272317 Of course, reading these books are very overkill if you only want to try clojure out, but I found it hard to successfully be able to program anything (I as you, felt lost) before I read land of lisp + practical clojure. Have fun Jonathan On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:59 PM, iamcreasy <quazir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everybody :) > > Welcome! > > > I am an experienced C++ programmer. Recently I decided to try out > > clojure(I have some java experience). > > My background was C++ for most of the 90's then Java for quite a bit > of the 00's so I expect you're finding the hardest part of learning > Clojure is adjusting to a functional approach with immutable data? > > > I read some tutorials of the basics clojure. Now I want to implement > > some simple algorithms. Starting with Insertion sort. > > There are two parts to the problem: > * given an item and a sorted list, return a new list with the item > inserted in the correct place > * given a list of unsorted items, repeatedly perform the first part > > For the sorted insert: > * if the sorted list is empty, return a new list with just the new item > * else if the new item is less than the first item in the sorted list, > return a new list: (cons new-item sorted-list) > * else return a new list: (cons (first sorted-list) (sorted-insert > new-item (rest list))) > > To repeatedly perform the insertion, try a loop with three variables: > next item to insert, remaining items to insert, sorted list so far... > > Hope that helps you get started? > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ > Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ > > "Perfection is the enemy of the good." > -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) > > -- > 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 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
