Introductions...

[Fogus]

Post your introductions here.

[Paul Barry]

Hey Everybody,

I'm planning on attending the Clojure Study Group. Is the plan still
1pm, Sunday, Dec 7 at Chief Ike's Mambo Room?

I offered to put together a presentation if that's what the group
wants. I'd like to get a sense of the background of people who plan
on attending. From that, we can see if there is anything in
particular that would be good to present on.

I've done Java programming for long time, mostly for web development,
and been doing mostly Ruby for web development for the last few
years. If there's anybody attending the group who is completely
unfamiliar with Java, I think it might help if I do a presentation on
the Java concepts that it's good to know in order to work with
Clojure. Things like Classes, Objects, Interfaces, Packages,
Classpath, Ant, etc. I've been going through Stu's book and it's
great, but I could see that if you aren't familiar with Java, some of
those things could be confusing.

If everyone attending has a decent understanding on Java, let's not
waste time on that stuff and just get right into. In that case, there
may not be a need for a presentation, we could just go through the
examples in the book, discussing topics as we come across them.

On Nov 28, 11:17 pm, Fogus <mefo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Post your introductions here.

[æon]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 14:11, Paul Barry <paulj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> years. If there's anybody attending the group who is completely
> unfamiliar with Java, I think it might help if I do a presentation on
> the Java concepts that it's good to know in order to work with
> Clojure. Things like Classes, Objects, Interfaces, Packages,
> Classpath, Ant, etc. I've been going through Stu's book and it's

I'd like to see some practical java functionality, like using swing,
sockets, or maybe audio. i feel comfortable in the little clojure
playground, but i feel like there's a land of opportunity behind the
interop functions, that i can't quite tap into :)

the swing code that hickey produces in one of the demos (the ant
colony simulation) he creates an anonymous instance to an interface,
and the instance is immediately passed as a handler to a java object.
maybe using something like that as a demo, and explaining the
corresponding java concepts would be very useful! (as opposed to just
going over concepts, and demonstrating java code)

[Matt Revelle]

On Nov 30, 2008, at 11:06 PM, æon wrote:

>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 14:11, Paul Barry <paulj...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> years. If there's anybody attending the group who is completely
>> unfamiliar with Java, I think it might help if I do a presentation on
>> the Java concepts that it's good to know in order to work with
>> Clojure. Things like Classes, Objects, Interfaces, Packages,
>> Classpath, Ant, etc. I've been going through Stu's book and it's
>
> I'd like to see some practical java functionality, like using swing,
> sockets, or maybe audio. i feel comfortable in the little clojure
> playground, but i feel like there's a land of opportunity behind the
> interop functions, that i can't quite tap into :)

Here is a simple class [1] that extends a jME [2] basic game class
that opens up a viewport with a cube.

The viewport can be started with:

(.start (motive.visual.Viewport.))

Not much to see yet, but I'm about to add in interaction with the
viewport from the REPL for general 3d visualization and scene
manipulation.

-Matt

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[1] http://paste.lisp.org/display/71341
[2] http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/

[Myriam Abramson]

Cool! I'm also trying to do something with jME, so that's a good
example.

--
myriam

[Luke VanderHart]

Hey everyone,

I haven't been involved in this group before, but I'm a longtime Java
programmer looking to escape from the Java mindset, just learning
Clojure, and loving it so far. Sounds like this would be a great
opportunity to learn. I'll definitely plan on attending.

Look forward to meeting everyone there,

-Luke

[Keith Bennett]

Paul -

I think that helping people without Java experience get up to speed
with Java is a great idea, and it's generous of you to offer to help,
but if it would comprise a significant portion of the meeting, it
would be helpful for me at least, and possibly others, to organize it
in advance, so that people who already have the Java experience can
choose not to attend without missing any Clojure stuff. It's a bit of
a trek from Reston for me, and I'm delighted to join you guys for it,
but I'd prefer not to make the trip for the Java stuff.

I hope to see you all tomorrow. Anyone want to get together there at
12:20 or so for lunch?

And, by the way, if any of you have any Java questions during these
studies, feel free to ask me. I have over 10 years Java experience,
focused on back end stuff and Java Swing, with some
Internationalization too.

- Keith

On Nov 30, 2:11 pm, Paul Barry <pauljbar...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Michael Harrison (goodmike)]

Keith, glad you can make it. Rest assured that even if Paul were
talking about Java topics, it likely would not take up all or even
most of the meeting. For the near future, I expect every meeting will
include code walk-throughs, sample problems (e.g. from Stu Halloway's
book Programming Clojure) and Q&A. Presentations would likely be
supplements to ad hoc group work only.

FYI, Chief Ike's does not open until 1PM, so you wouldn't be able to
grab lunch there, although there are plenty of places on Columbia.
It's going to be cold tomorrow, so if you don't want to risk getting
there before they open, I would totally understand if you showed up
around 1:15. We're keeping it casual, y'all.

Michael