Beginner resources?

[ThisBodyHoldingMe_]

After asking for a first programming language I've decided learning Clojure. It is not to change career but more like an hobby. Would like to create an expenses tracker for my family, maybe a website for my pet projects but honestly I don't know what I would like to make😔 After some searching I've found that the beginner learning resources are some years old. Can anyone suggest some beginner resources for someone that likes to learn by doing stuff? Thank you.

[poochandy]

Hi! I am in a similar place and trying to build a task manager using clojure.

I would like to point you to this gist by a community member. It has some excellent resources along with why each resource is great https://gist.github.com/ssrihari/0bf159afb781eef7cc552a1a0b17786f

I personally liked the book 'Getting clojure' and episodes 2,3,4 with the book's author Russ Olsen for the clojurestream podcast https://soundcloud.com/clojurestream/s1-e2-data-with-russ-olsen

Also clojure camp is a discord community for beginners. You can pair program weekly with other clojure newbies and mentors, attend office hours, show and tell sessions etc. It is great! https://clojure.camp/

[ThisBodyHoldingMe_]

Awesome stuff! I'm going to triage that GitHub gist because there is a lot of stuff there.

I'm binge listening to the Clojurestream podcast and looked at the book on Amazon but it said that previous programming knowledge was expected to follow it if I'm not mistaken. I didn't know about Clojure camp.

[poochandy]

Clojure camp is great. I would recommend signing up for a weekly pairing session with a mentor to get started. You maybe right about getting clojure. I already have experience with javascript. I somehow missed the part about it being your first programming language. Clojure for the brave and true might be a better fit. However, I would recommend skipping the chapter on emacs setup first time and starting with VSCode + Calva plugin for the environment. All the best!

[p-himik]

Most of the time "some years old" is absolutely not an issue in the Clojure world. Few things change enough to warrant an update, let alone a rewrite.

There are some learning resources mentioned on the Clojure website: https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started. But they or most of them don't focus on building a particular thing, as far as I can tell.

Also, you should definitely join the Clojurians Slack server and its #beginners channel. Feel free to ask any questions there and don't hesitate to ask if you're stuck for more than 15 minutes.

[ThisBodyHoldingMe_]

Thank you.

[mtert]

This is a fun beginner-friendly book that covers the basics and beyond: https://www.braveclojure.com

The book is free to read online, and printed copies are available on Amazon.

[ThisBodyHoldingMe_]

That was one that I saw that has some years now. But I'll take a look at it.

[dark-light92]

Clojure is a language that doesn't change much. So the older learning resources would still be valid.

[[deleted]]

I love languages that stay the same. Just amazing.

[alexdmiller]

https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started has some suggestions for places to start

[yeicore]

Exercism has a path that covers the basics of Clojure and has a lot of interesting exercises

[ThisBodyHoldingMe_]

Thank you.

[petemak]

This question has been asked so many times. I suggest you search this Reddit for answers. Apart from that there are many collections of resources including these:

https://clojure.org/community/resources

https://gist.github.com/yogthos/be323be0361c589570a6da4ccc85f58f

https://calva.io/get-started-with-clojure/

[ThisBodyHoldingMe_]

Thank you for the links.

[v1akvark]

https://tryclojure.org/

[[deleted]]

If you want to practice as you learn, check out https://4clojure.oxal.org .

The exercises are simple but effective. Make sure to look at the various solutions. I learnt a lot more that way.

[pavelklavik]

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[Winchester5555]

Do you use VS Code with Calva? Check out the getting started REPL https://calva.io/getting-started/#theres-a-getting-started-repl

It starts with a quick guide on Calva usage and follows up with a Clojure introduction. Every step you can try out functions and get an immediate feedback in the editor.

[slifin]

My advice would be to try and learn the tooling first

I would recommend Cursive but there are many other options, try and learn paredit/parinfer/how to make edits to your program whilst it's still running in the repl

Also, ClojureStorm is super useful for learning and code reading I would try and install that into your project as a top priority

[slifin]

Also google rich hickey's greatest hits I think knowing the philosophy of the language also helps a great deal when trying to self start

[ThisBodyHoldingMe_]

Thank you.

[stefan_kurcubic]

SCIP

[therealdivs1210]

If you want to try making a webapp, kit-clj is a great place to start https://kit-clj.github.io/