For what it worth... I bought this book because I thought it would be a great way for me to learn Clojure. I am familiar with web frameworks such as Rails and Play, but didn't know much about Clojure. Unfortunately, it proved too difficult for me to follow because Clojure is way different from imperative languages. This is not the book's fault. So in order to really be able to read this book, I had to take a step back and focus on learning Clojure first, which is what I'm doing now. Once I have a better understanding, I will get back to the book.
So the bottom line (for me) is that - I am not able to tell whether this book is good or not (although I'm pretty confident it is). I am actually impatient to be able to reopen it :-) - Because I didn't know Clojure, I was not ready for this book. Of course, your mileage may vary. I think the author says that you don't need to be an expert at Clojure, but I think you still need to have played with and "get" functional programming, which makes total sense. On a side note, the first few chapters of this book introduced me to Light Table, and after having had a rough start with it, I now very much like it. Also, the author appears to be responsive on the book web page over at pragpub. Laurent. On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:54:25 AM UTC-8, Erlis Vidal wrote: > > Hi all, > > Have any of you read the book *Web Development with Clojure*? > > > http://www.amazon.com/Web-Development-Clojure-Build-Bulletproof/dp/1937785645 > > There's only one review on amazon, and it's a fantastic review but I'm > wondering if this is the book I should read if I wanted to start using > Clojure for web programming. > > Any advice will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Erlis > > -- 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.
