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Clojure Programming

Clojure Advocacy

• YOU USE PHP BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW BETTER
• Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy

Functional Programming

• John Pither: Functional Programming for the Enterprise
• Why to edit programs while they are running
• Main FP Principles

Resources

Books

• Lisp Books made into Clojure

Quick Guides

• Clojure Style Guide
• A side-by-side reference sheet (Lisp: Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Emacs Lisp)
• Flowchart for choosing the right Clojure type definition form
• Clojure macros for beginners

Learning

• http://www.4clojure.com
• Beautiful Clojure concepts visualisation

Specific Topics

• On sequences and immutability
• Libs and namespaces
• IO as Data

Web Development

• Ultimate overview
• Pedestal Framework, Pedestal Beginner's Guide
• Conjure: web framework a-la Django or Rails
• Noir Framework - deprecated, see Moving away from Noir

Tools and IDEs

You definitely need Leiningen for easy project management. There is a multitude of IDE's available, however none is absolutely perfect, yet…

• Counterclockwise plugin for Eclipse
• IntelliJ Idea has a plugin La Clojure directly in its repository.
• LightTable's Instarepl is just awesome for playing around!
• vim-fireplace
• Other tools at http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Clojure+Tools. Very recommended is Eclipse+Counterclockwise

Tips and Tricks

• Clojure workflow

Useful Libraries

• spreadmap: Library for reading Excel files
• Timbre: logging and profiling library
• Midje: gracious testing library
• Instaparse: library for parsing

Interesting Solutions

• Forum
• Dots game