It’s a great book, but require you to play with the code when you read the book.
-- tao Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Laurent Droin wrote: > 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 > (mailto: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 > (mailto: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 > (mailto:clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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.
