My experience.. 1. It is a well written book. You will have to read sequentially. 2. Prior knowledge of clojure is required -- list, vector, map, let etc. (Or at least review the clojure summary at the back first). 3. Since I knew Rails before, a lot of the concepts seemed to be straight forward -- routes, handlers (controllers), Urls, Ring (wardern) etc. 4. One benefit is you can build a decent web application quickly. 5. The auther is the creator of Luminusweb. But he doesn't tout that framework. There is only a paragraph at the end. But if you are going to choose that web framework (or libraries), or similar ones such as Joodo, reading this book will help get us some low level understanding of all the pieces working together.
Worth the investment (imho). On Friday, February 21, 2014 8:43:59 AM UTC-8, Stefan Kanev wrote: > > On 19/02/14, 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. > > I'll share my 2c. > > Before picking the book, I already knew some Clojure, but I hadn't used > it for web. The book was a nice overview of some of the "popular" tools > for web development in Clojure. I enjoyed reading it. In a few cases I > felt that I needed to write the example code and play with it in order > to truly grok what it is about. > > If you know some Clojure (O'Reilly's Clojure Programming is a great book > for that, in my opinion), then it is a perfect follow-up if you're > interested in web apps (IMHO). > > -- > Stefan Kanev ¦ @skanev ¦ http://skanev.com/ > You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the > continuing vitality of FORTRAN. > -- 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.
