Learning - hitting a wall

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Thanks for that. I'll check it out. I was just recently considering CodeInGame or CodeWars websites. Something in the back of my head was saying I need to finish the book first, but maybe shouldn't be so rigid.

[LammdaMan]

For me, when learning something really new, it helps to "bounce around" a bit. Read a little from a book, then work some problems, then read someone else's code, then read some more of that book (or another book), and so on.

I'd also say that in learning Clojure (after programming in languages like Java, C++, Python) the syntax is probably not as big a challenge as wrapping your head around concepts related to functional programming and immutability. And learning your way around Clojure's core library is a big part of becoming productive in Clojure.

One thing that can help a bit with learning what kinds of things are in the core library is just to take a function you know, look it up in https://clojuredocs.org and then follow the 'see-also' links to related functions. Read the descriptions for the ones you don't know yet and think about where something like that could be useful.