Re: Beginners (and idiomatic Clojure)

2008-10-21 Thread Fogus
> The presentation videos on the net are excellent -- they are what > convinced my that Clojure is really worth learning, and learning well, My discovery came in a similar way. But they had the additional benefit of motivating me to buckle down and learn Emacs. ;) > However, to be really acces

Re: Beginners (and idiomatic Clojure)

2008-10-21 Thread Stuart Halloway
Hi Krukow, The book will go electronic beta (60% complete) in early November, and should be available in print in March 2009. WRT to the case study, you are absolutely right. We will develop the Java and Clojure versions in parallel, so that neither one benefits unfairly from domain knowle

Re: Beginners (and idiomatic Clojure)

2008-10-20 Thread Krukow
On Oct 20, 2:02 pm, Stuart Halloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Krukow, > > The quality will definitely be higher than this: > > http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/9/16/pcl-clojure > > Same author, more time. :-) > > Stuart Hi Stuart, Sounds good - you have at least one buyer ;-) Will the

Re: Beginners (and idiomatic Clojure)

2008-10-20 Thread Stuart Halloway
Hi Krukow, The quality will definitely be higher than this: http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/9/16/pcl-clojure Same author, more time. :-) Stuart > On Oct 20, 12:30 am, Paul Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Krukow, >> >> I agree, it would help to have a resource for learning Clojure. Fo

Re: Beginners (and idiomatic Clojure)

2008-10-19 Thread Krukow
On Oct 20, 12:30 am, Paul Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Krukow, > > I agree, it would help to have a resource for learning Clojure.  For > now, my best advice is to pick a real project to start working and > then specific questions in the IRC room, #clojure on irc.freenode.net. > > Within a

Re: Beginners (and idiomatic Clojure)

2008-10-19 Thread Paul Barry
Krukow, I agree, it would help to have a resource for learning Clojure. For now, my best advice is to pick a real project to start working and then specific questions in the IRC room, #clojure on irc.freenode.net. Within a few months, we'll have the beta book: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/shc

Beginners (and idiomatic Clojure)

2008-10-18 Thread Krukow
This post is intended to start a discussion about how to help beginners (like myself) going in the right direction learning *to actually use* Clojure in real-world programs. The presentation videos on the net are excellent -- they are what convinced my that Clojure is really worth learning, and l