What are resources to learn Clojure for beginners in Programming and get better?

[Hanekawa Tsubasa]

As in title,
I am not too good of programmer, best I can do is like, write simple number guessing game, and I guess that is an elementary thing to even be able to do..

So,
My question is, what are good resources to get better at clojure, that does not require much prior experience?

And other question while we are at it..
Would be going through specific tutorials, like for example, how to write simple snake game in clojure, and then playing around with it, changing things, be a decent approach?

In advance, I appreciate all replies, thank you.

[Jacek Schae]

Shameless plug 😅

When I came to Clojure community this is what I was looking for; a way to learn to learn idiomatic Clojure without a lot of prior knowledge. This is why I created these:

https://www.learnreagent.com 

https://www.learnreframe.com

https://www.learnreitit.com 

https://www.learndatomic.com

You can get all via subscription to https://clojure.stream

I would recommend to do them in the order I listed them: Reagent > Re-Frame > Reitit > Datomic. Reagent course starts from basic concepts - immutable data structures, list comprehension, destructuring, threading macros ... and the rest builds on top of that.

Every course takes your from zero to having a finished app; including deployment. My learning style is learning by doing and all of the courses are constructed this way. We build fronted app, or backend REST API ...  if this is something that could work for you -- check it out.

Jacek

PS. If you like podcasts -- check out https://clojurescriptpodcast.com I talk with community member about libraries (mainly web dev), which should serve a learning resource to understand Clojure ecosystem.

[Harold]

> My question is, what are good resources to get better at clojure, that does not require much prior experience?

>

I learned a lot from, and like to recommend, the Koans: http://clojurekoans.com/

> Would be going through specific tutorials, like for example, how to write simple snake game in clojure, and then playing around with it, changing things, be a decent approach?

>

Sure. At this early stage, you'll benefit from basically anything you do. It's important that what you do is fun, because if it's fun you'll keep doing it, and if you don't keep doing it, you won't improve.

I'll also mention https://ask.clojure.org/ - a great site for getting specific questions answered; and you'll have questions as you go along.

Hope that helps.

Warmly,

-Harold

[William la Forge]

This may seem silly at times, but I think very highly of it as a starting point: https://www.braveclojure.com/

Also, I suggest that you shift approaches from time to time. Clojure is unbelievably rich and supports programming methodologies that you've never hear of, as well as all the ones you have previously encountered. 

Here's a quick access page that provides an index into a lot of basic clojure functions: https://jafingerhut.github.io/cheatsheet/clojuredocs/cheatsheet-tiptip-cdocs-summary.html

[Hanekawa Tsubasa]

Thank you all, those are all wonderful replies, and they help a lot

[Zeinab Zeitoun]

Hello, 

I highly recommend https://www.braveclojure.com/ 

Zeinab Zeitoun

Full Stack Developer

+961 70748800 | linkedin.com/in/zeinab-zeitoun

Pure Mathematics | American University of Beirut

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