Getting Clojure: Build Your Functional Skills One Idea at a Time, in print
May 09, 2018
Behind every programming language lies a vision of how programs should be built. The vision behind Clojure is of a radically simple language framework holding together a sophisticated collection of programming features. To really "get" Clojure, you need Getting Clojure: Build Your Functional Skills One Idea at a Time, now in print and shipping from pragprog.com/book/roclojure.
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Getting Clojure: Build Your Functional Skills One Idea at a Time
Clojure attracts developers on the cutting edge and is arguably the best language for learning to program in the functional style without compromise. But this comes with a steep learning curve. Getting Clojure directly addresses this by teaching you how to think functionally as it teaches you the language. You’ll learn about Clojure’s powerful data structures and high-level functions, but you’ll also learn what it means for a language to be functional, and how to think in Clojure’s functional way.
Each chapter of Getting Clojure takes a feature or two or three from the language, explains the syntax and the mechanics behind that feature so that you can make it work before digging into the deeper questions: What is the thinking behind the feature? And how does it fit in with the rest of the language? In Getting Clojure you'll learn Clojure's very simple syntax, but you'll also learn why that syntax is integral the way the language is constructed. You'll discover that most data structures in Clojure are immutable, but also why that leads to more reliable programs. And you'll see how easy it is to write Clojure functions and also how you can use those functions to build complex and capable systems.
With real-world examples of how working Clojure programmers use the language, Getting Clojure will help you see the challenges of programming through the eye of experienced Clojure developers.
Now in print and shipping from pragprog.com/book/roclojure.
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