I've found that (some of) Clojure's advanced features are best taught in terms of simpler ideas that most programmers would be familiar with.
For example, excuse the plug, I motivated multimethods by relating them to simple conditionals like "case". I think I succeeded in making MMs just look like a fancier conditional, which is much more friendly than an "arbitrary dispatch mechanism" ;) http://pragprog.com/magazines/2011-07/growing-a-dsl-with-clojure I'm brainstorming how we could approach teaching the other features you mentioned similarly. Thanks, Ambrose On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Albert Cardona <sapri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chas, > > "It seems that relatively few people are taking advantage of some of > Clojure’s most sophisticated and unique features: metadata; protocols, > records, and types; and multimethods. These facilities are absolutely > game-changers, at least IMO. Either most domains have no use for them > (I can’t believe that), or most people don’t know how to use them > effectively, thus they are left unused. Those of us that write about > and teach Clojure, take note." > > > What prevents me from using it is that clojure 1.3.* is still alpha or > early beta, and it's been for a long time. > If clojure 1.3 was released and development continued into 1.4, I > predict that protocols and records would suddenly start being used a > lot more. > > Albert > > -- > http://albert.rierol.net > http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~acardona/ > > -- > 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
