This is good advice. I think you can cover a lot of ground using this
approach, which I guess you need to do when writing a book.
As I mentioned in another post, I believe I have to choose between covering
a lot of ground and building them a foundation that they can experiment on
further.
On Friday, 21 December 2012 04:14:41 UTC+1, Brian Marick wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Seth Chandler <chandl...@gmail.com<javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
> > but in dealing with file locations, dependency management, projects,
> Leiningen, all of which are -- with due respect -- very difficult,
> particularly for people not coming from an Eclipse or similar background.
>
> In my book, I decided to have everyone work at the repl, using only
> cutting-and-pasting or `load-file`. It's a 325-page book that never talks
> about namespaces or the `ns` macro.
>
> The beginning instructions about how to do the exercises looks like this:
>
> > You can copy and paste Clojure text into
> > the repl. It handles multiple lines just fine.
> >
> > [… a note about possible glitches when copying from a PDF]
> >
> > If you want to
> > use a Clojure command to load a file like (for example)
> `solutions/add-and-make.clj`,
> > use this:
> >
> > {:lang="clojure"}
> > ~~~~~~~~~~
> > user> (load-file "solutions/add-and-make.clj")
> > ~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > *Warning*: I'm used to using `load` in other languages, so I
> > often reflexively use it instead of `load-file`. That leads
> > to this
> > puzzling message:
> >
> > {:lang="clojure"}
> > ~~~~~~~~~~
> > user=> (load "sources/without-class-class.clj")
> > FileNotFoundException Could not locate sources/without-class-class.
> > clj__init.class or sources/without-class-class.clj.clj on classpath:
> > clojure.lang.RT.load (RT.java:432)
> > ~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > The clue to my mistake is the ".clj.clj" on the next-to-last line.
>
> These instructions seem to work well for my readers.
>
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