The easiest, when anything becomes a road block, is simply tryclj.comcombined with 4clojure.com.
Those two alone can give you enough to work with and chew on while you become more familiar with clojure and setup a proper environment (including Leiningen). Another simplification is to use lein-oneoff<https://github.com/mtyaka/lein-oneoff>, once you have Leiningen installed, so that you can delay understanding how projects are structured and ran when typing "lein new". On Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:51:06 PM UTC-6, Lee wrote: > > > I think I have an idea of where your coming from. Leiningen does lots of > wonderful and important things but coming from the outside (or at least > from certain "outsides") it's not even clear why you'd want to do a lot of > those things, and it doesn't do some of the things that seem most essential > to really getting started (like provide a way to edit code). > > I'm glad you've found IntelliJ IDEA to be helpful but FWIW I think that > the best way to get started for many outsiders may instead be Clooj, which > lets you edit and run code without knowing anything about Java or package > managers or anything else -- you can just download and double click one > thing and then start typing pure Clojure code in an environment that has > minimal but essential features like bracket matching and auto-indentation. > > Clooj is listed on one of the "getting started" pages out there, but I > know that its author could use help keeping it up to date and improving it. > > -Lee > > > On Feb 14, 2013, at 2:32 PM, BJG145 wrote: > > > What I find exasperating about Leinigen is that I've got a degree in > computer science, decades of experience in IT support, and I still haven't > been able to get it working yet. :-( > > > > Package Manager? Curl? What? > > > > OK, look, I'm not very bright. It took me years to get my head round OOP > because all the books and examples were so dull. I like this Gideros thing > I've discovered because it lets me throw together interesting programs with > sound and graphics like I used to do on my BBC Micro when I was a kid. I > feel I could release a Kindle app if I set my mind to it. I'd like to feel > the same about Clojure, but I'm struggling. I read that functional > programming is the future; it's fun; it's expressive; but to do anything > interesting with it it seems you have to be a professional programmer. I > can't imagine any teenagers releasing hit apps with it like they do with > Corona. I'm exasperated that I can't find a nice Windows-based environment > and a set of comprehensible graphics functions. Oh, just ignore me, I'm > just having a rant. ;-) > > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
