It's worth noting that the new Clojure Cookbook also has a chapter that goes over the basics of Clojure web development. If you already are quite comfortable with Clojure and don't need to see a lot of extended examples, the Cookbook chapter covers much of the same ground as the Clojure Web Development book, albeit much more compactly.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Hari Krishnan <hkrishnan2...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 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. > -- 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.
