On Mar 20, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Marcus Blankenship <mar...@creoagency.com> wrote: > So I'm curious: how did you learn Clojure well enough to be proficient with > it, or how are you working on learning it?
Initial dabbling: The Joy of Clojure and a REPL. Caveat: it's not really an introductory Clojure book but I had past FP experience so I felt I could "jump in". Initial serious learning: Attended Amit Rathore's Clojure Bootcamp - one day course for about $300 (if I remember correctly?). Follow-on: 4clojure.com, worked through Clojure in Action as well. Then I picked a handful of small-ish problems we'd already solved at work in other languages and re-coded them in Clojure. Since then it's been a steady stream of tackling increasingly larger problems at work, over a period of about three years. > Anyone else facing the focus + fear dilemma? There's a lot less fear if you're used to learning new languages. I try to pick up a new language every year or two: Groovy in 2008/2009, Scala in 2009/2010, Clojure in 2010/2011 (and onward). Dabbled in Ruby, Python, Haskell since then but nothing serious. Very interested in Elm right now. As for focus, yes, you really do need a "project". Either pick things you've done before in other languages, or figure out something that would scratch an itch (a small web app, perhaps?) and tackle that. Sean Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880)
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