Mailing my contributor agreement today so I can help----really excited! May I just add that at the same level of prominence after the "no decisions" beginner path, we might also put a tutorial on Web (via Noir, perhaps?) and Incanter development? Those are two amazing applications of Clojure----let's not be coy to beginners about them!
On Jul 8, 11:50 am, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Read my blog post (written a year ago; updated several times to ensure > >> it works with newer versions of Clojure and Leiningen): > > >>http://corfield.org/blog/post.cfm/getting-started-with-clojure > > >> Now replace clojure.org/getting_started with something like that and I > >> think most of the complaints would go away. > > > ++++1. That's really all there is to it. The starting path needs to > > be Lein and lein repl. If that one section on the Clojure.org website > > were changed (it's been there for what----two years?) it would look so > > much better to newcomers. Lein can at least get people up and > > running, and give them time to play with Clojure while they figure out > > IDEs. > > Here's a possible plan: > > 1. Core will produce a smaller, up-to-date page for > clojure.org/getting_started. This page will do less, and will link out > prominently to the contributor wiki. Turnaround time on this: probably not > before the announcement [1] on July 20. We're quite busy atm. > > 2. Between now and then, please help make the contributor wiki > (http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Getting+Started) better! Some obvious > things: > > 2a. Create a "no decisions needed" path for beginners. I share the opinion > that this should not be IDE-based. > > 2b. Link out to the various other resources that are particularly useful for > beginners. > > Stu > > Stuart Halloway > Clojure/corehttp://clojure.com > > [1]http://www.meetup.com/Clojure-NYC/events/16166953/ -- 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
