Yeah, JoC is my favorite clojure book, but I agree it's not the best to start with.
Let me throw a couple others into the mix that haven't been mentioned yet. If you come from a solid OO background, I highly recommend Brian Marick's book "Functional Programming For the Object Oriented programmer". He sells it on Leanpub, so it's not as well known as some of the others. But for someone with lots of OO experience trying to wrap their head around functional concepts, I think it's a great book. I've started recommending it to all my old Java friends who are interested in Clojure. Another book I found useful starting out was "Web Development in Clojure" (I think that's the name) from PragPub. It's main contribution is showing you how to put all the pieces together end to end into a finished app. One last one that I know seems completely out of place is "Functional JavaScript" by Fogus (one of the JoC authors). Even if you never use JavaScript, the book is worth reading for his explanations of functional concepts. -- 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.