Thank, Blake! On Mar 20, 2014, at 11:50 PM, blake.wat...@pnmac.com wrote:
> Some Lisp books have been "translated" to Clojure. > > http://juliangamble.com/blog/2012/07/13/amazing-lisp-books-living-again-in-clojure/ > > On Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:23:10 PM UTC-7, Marcus Blankenship wrote: > Cool, thanks to all who've replied thus far. > > Question: is there any value in traditional lisp / scheme texts, like SICP, > or Little Schemer (etc) or other books like that? I've spent quite a bit of > time with them, imagining they would pay off, but I'm not sure that's a > "normal" route to Clojure proficiency. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 20, 2014, at 11:12 PM, Sean Corfield <se...@corfield.org> wrote: > > > >> 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) > > > > > > > > -- > 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/d/optout. Best, Marcus Marcus Blankenship \\\ Problem Solver, Linear Thinker \\\ 541.805.2736 \ @justzeros \ skype:marcuscreo -- 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/d/optout.
