[ANN] Clojure By Example: IN/Clojure'18 workshop source material

2018-01-19 Thread Aditya Athalye
Hello, I'd like to share the material (source code etc.) for a Clojure workshop for programmers. The material supported a 1-day guided workshop conducted at the recently-concluded IN/Clojure conference in Bangalore, India (http://inclojure.org/). While the material is most fun and effective i

Re: Help please: New to clojure development

2018-02-06 Thread Aditya Athalye
Welcome to Clojure, Nadeen. A few friends and I created "Clojure by example" for programmers not familiar with Clojure https://github.com/inclojure-org/clojure-by-example This is intended as a quick-start to a common way of problem-solving with Clojure. The README explains more, and should he

Re: Loop causing OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded ?

2018-03-03 Thread Aditya Athalye
On Friday, March 2, 2018 at 9:58:35 PM UTC+5:30, Rob Nikander wrote: > > > > On Friday, March 2, 2018 at 12:48:28 AM UTC-5, Daniel wrote: >> >> How do you know this code is causing the error? Unless this is all your >> code does, descriptions of the error suggest the memory leak might be >> comin

Re: Loop causing OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded ?

2018-03-03 Thread Aditya Athalye
On Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 1:39:23 PM UTC+5:30, Aditya Athalye wrote: > > On Friday, March 2, 2018 at 9:58:35 PM UTC+5:30, Rob Nikander wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, March 2, 2018 at 12:48:28 AM UTC-5, Daniel wrote: >>> >>> How do you know this co

Re: Bit rot and leiningen?

2020-02-06 Thread Aditya Athalye
On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 4:04:42 AM UTC+5:30, Sean Corfield wrote: > > > because I still haven't found a development environment I like better > than LightTable > > > > Have you looked at Atom/Chlorine recently? It has the same inline result > display that LightTable had, it has a built

Re: How did you learn Clojure?

2014-03-24 Thread Aditya Athalye
Marcus, Thanks for asking the question and instigating this discussion. A bit late into the thread, but I just want to narrate my experience so far as I'm a Clojure n00b (actually, I'm really a programming n00b). I found 4clojure and Clojure Koans useful, to get an initial feel for the language

Re: How should I begin this project?

2014-03-24 Thread Aditya Athalye
Thanks for the lead on exercism.io, Tim. I just set it up, to peek at how it looks/works. The setup itself was a breeze, and the very first exercise is a nice little text processing problem. (Based on "Deaf Grandma", found here: http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=06) Feels like a good fol

Re: How did you learn Clojure?

2014-03-27 Thread Aditya Athalye
@Marcus, Thanks for your kind words, Marcus. @Gareth, +1. I feel re-implementing a past solution is a really good learning technique. Half the battle is to correctly understand a problem/domain and work out how to solve it. No point taking on that kind of friction if the purpose is to learn a ne

Re: Real World Example

2014-04-09 Thread Aditya Athalye
Welcome, Anthony. I'm not aware of complete applications that fit your requirement, however I think you'll find value in the newly-minted Clojure Cookbook http://clojure-cookbook.com/ ... many, many examples of real-world problems, across domains, solved by Clojure practitioners. All the exa