academy
Welcome to the Academy, where we learn to wield the weapons of a more civilized age.
This site has two parts:
- Learning Clojure, which is a fork/rework of Functional Programming in Clojure
- Clojure in real life, a series of practical tips on getting started with the language. Consider this a list of opinions and advice to build a real-world Clojure project and have a ton of fun.
The source of this repo is available at https://github.com/Heliosmaster/academy
Why another course?
There’s a ton of great Clojure learning resources, but I had a really good experience with Functional Programming in Clojure. I’ve learned the language with the same course in 2014 and I wanted to refresh it for 2020. I liked the simplicity and effectiveness of the exercises and I think I can expand on that, learning from my experience over these last few years of working full-time in Clojure. The second part is more meant to be a collections of notes / post with practical advice. I’ve heard from newcomers to the language that they felt a bit lost due to the lack of practical guidance in making something useful, and I want to help address that.
Getting started
- Choose an Editor with
pareditsupport (TODO) - Follow the Getting started page from the Clojure website
clj - Verify that you have a REPL running by typing
cljon your command line. You should see, after a couple of seconds, this output
$ clj
Clojure 1.10.1
user=>
All is well, Press Ctrl-D and exit from the REPL.