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Clojure Programming

Clojure / FP Advocacy

• Functional Thinking (video)
• http://www.braveclojure.com/
• Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy
• Why I'm Productive in Clojure
• YOU USE PHP BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW BETTER
• Clojure data uniformity – an explanation of benefits of direct data access compared to object-oriented approach

Functional Programming

• Functional Thinking (video)
• John Pither: Functional Programming for the Enterprise
• Why to edit programs while they are running
• Main FP Principles
• http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Identity-State-Rich-Hickey

Resources

Books

• [bib:fogus-joy-of-clojure], [bib:halloway-programming-clojure], [bib:vanderhart-practical-clojure]
• Lisp Books made into Clojure

Quick Guides

• Tutorial for “children”: Comics Casting spells with Lisp
• 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
• Domain-Driven Design with Clojure – video about Clojure programmes design

Learning

• Brief Beginner's Guide to Clojure
• Getting Started with Clojure - Part 1
• http://www.4clojure.com
• Beautiful Clojure concepts visualisation
• Clojure Cookbook

Specific / Advanced Topics

• On sequences and immutability
• Libs and namespaces
• Destructuring
• IO as Data
• Growing a DSL
• Data, Visibility, Abstraction
• Concurrency is not parallelism (Go); Clojure's take: core.async
• Clojure concurrency tutorial
• Dire: decomplecting error behaviour

Web Development

• Ultimate overview
• Pedestal Framework, Pedestal Beginner's Guide, Small example
• Online HTML->Hiccup converter
• Conjure: web framework a-la Django or Rails
• Luminus - a curated set of libraries
• Noir Framework - deprecated, see Moving away from Noir
• todo webapp with core.async
• Ganelon – microframework for instant Ajax development
• DSL for Web applications – a very promising idea!!! — Robert Pergl 2013/09/10 21:43

ClojureScript

• Book ClojureScript Up and Running
• ClojureScript tutorials
• ClojureScript compiler as a web service
• The ClojureScript browser-REPL
• A sampler of ClojureScript application designs

Mixed resources

• Various videos

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.
• Clooj is elegant and very lightweight with limited capabilities
• LightTable's Instarepl is just awesome for playing around! See here for an inspiration
• vim-fireplace here and here recommended together with Redl plugin and vim-sexp
• Other tools at http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Clojure+Tools.

Leiningen plugins

• lein-ancient – to check availability of newer versions of used libraries
• lein-kibit – Clojure style checker
• http://hugoduncan.org/post/alembic_reloads_your_project_clj_dependencies

Tips and Tricks

• Clojure workflow
• For Clojure DEBUGGING use Timbre for logging and Spyscope for forms spying. An alternative is also clojure.trace
• Survey of Clojure testing

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
• Autocompleter in ClojureScript
• Screen scraping

Technical Topics

• Performance analysis of JVM-Hosted Languages