Agreed, you should definitely start with lein. If you have ~/bin on your path (and curl):
1. Get lein: curl -L https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/raw/stable/bin/lein > ~/lein chmod a+x ~/lein 2. Create a new project with lein (in current working directory) lein new first-time 3. Get a repl to play around with: cd first-time lein repl 4. To play with and run code, first modify project.clj to look like this (add the :main key): (defproject first-time "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT" :description "FIXME: write description" :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.2.1"]] :main first-time.core) 5. Then, add a -main function to core.clj (which will be in src/first_time/core.clj from the project root directory), so that core.clj looks like this: (ns first-time.core) (defn -main [] (println "hello" "world")) 6. Now, to run the code (from anywhere in the project root directory or below): lein run 7. Now, play around with Clojure. Then, worry about finding an editor that you like that has paren matching, proper indenting, etc. - Mark On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Peter Tabatt <ptab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey guys, I downloaded the clojure file from github, unzipped it and > > can't go any further. Any ideas? > > I strongly recommend starting with Leiningen instead of the raw > Clojure JAR files. > > https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen > > If you already have a ~/bin folder, download the lein script per the > installation instructions and put it in that folder so it's on your > path. Make it executable. > > Leiningen handles project structure, dependencies and the REPL. It's a > lot easier than trying to deal with JARs and the classpath directly. > > I use a Mac and I'm happy to screen share with you and get you up and > running. I'm seancorfield on AIM and seancorfi...@gmail.com on Gtalk > and I use iChat. I'll be happy to talk about IDE options on the Mac > too, once I've got a sense of your background and what you're used > to... > -- > 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
