These four reference sheets will be handy for you when you’re learning clj-refactor, the plugin for CIDER.
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PDFs, code, and other downloads to help you learn Overwhelmed by the number of functions in Clojure core.async? This reference sheet shows you just the essentials in an easy-to-follow format. We tend to code using patterns that we repeat a lot. Learning these patterns can help you level up your macro skills very quickly. This reference sheet contains six annotated patterns that Clojure programmers use all the time. Have you ever wondered what the symbols in Clojure macros do? I’m talking about `, ~, ~@, etc. This handy reference sheet tells you what they all do, when to use it, and shows examples. Never get lost in a macro again! When we’re developing macros, it really helps to be able to see what code it will output. Fortunately, Clojure comes with three built-in functions for doing just that. They are so useful for debugging. This reference sheet shows what each one does. It also includes how to access macroexpansion in the three most popular Clojure […] Want a handy reference for writing your tests? This cheatsheet contains everything you need to write tests, make assertions, and set up fixtures. It even shows the commands for runnings tests at the REPL.Clojure core.async Reference Sheet
Clojure Macro Patterns Reference
Clojure Macro Sigils Reference
Clojure Macroexpand Reference
Clojure.test Cheatsheet
Written Guides
Pragmatic and in-depth guides to a topic. Why building something useful to you is bad advice and 10 side projects you can do in a weekend. 5 functional programming ways to impress a hiring manager with your resume. Is functional programming a fad? We cut through the buzz cycle and answer the question once and for all. So you want to know who’s using Clojure and where to find jobs? You’ve come to the right place. Your Database is going to contain a lot of important information. When
you’re first starting out your app, you don’t know exactly what you’re
going to store in there. In addition, you don’t know how you’re going
to want to access it. Both of these will evolve over time as you
understand more of the domain and you uncover the complexities of your
UI. We want some help from the framework (Re-frame) to help us deal
with this evolution. Reagent is a ClojureScript wrapper around React. It makes it easy to create React components using functions and hiccup, and state managed in Atoms.10 Weekend projects to spruce up your Functional Programming resume
5 ways to tweak your resume
Are there enough functional programming jobs?
Clojure Jobs Resources
Database Structure in Re-frame
Guide to Reagent
Learning Paths
Curated selections of courses on a specific topic Clojure can be an excellent language to learn programming. The following courses should set you on a good path for getting up to speed in Clojure. Be sure to click those checkmarks to track your progress. Start with the best introduction to Clojure out there. It gently guides you through the language with fun exercises. […] The following sequence of courses should build up your functional programming toolkit. These will help you eliminate duplication in your code and find better abstractions. If you’re coming to Clojure from an Object-Oriented Programming background, this page is for you. Be sure to click those checkmarks to track your progress. Start with the best introduction to Clojure out there. It gently guides you through the language with fun exercises. You’ll learn the syntax and the thought processes behind Clojure programming. […] If you’re looking to watch absolutely all of the courses on this site, I’ve put together a suggested order. Start at the beginning and just watch everything straight through. Be sure to click those checkmarks to track your progress. Web development is an extremely popular use for Clojure. If you want to learn web programming, here are the courses I recommend you watch. I am assuming you already are familiar with Clojure. Be sure to click those checkmarks to track your progress. Backend You’ll want to learn Ring. It is a unifying set of […]Beginner Programmer Learning Path
Functional Programming Learning Path
Object-Oriented Programmer Learning Path
The Everything Learning Path
Web Programming Learning Path
Video Courses
Screencasts, Whiteboards, and Slides produced to help you learn Learn these three tools — map, filter, and reduce– and you’ll be well on your way to developing a functional mindset. I get a lot of questions from people trying to learn Clojure. Sometimes, the best way to answer them is with a video. This course is for all of those questions that don’t really fit anywhere else. What mysteries do Clojure macros hold? This course jumps right into macros with gusto. It starts with the key to understanding macros, takes you through the implementation of 6 progressively more complex macros, and finishes with the three reasons you *need* macros. Sometimes we want to see how individual components are built. We want to know how to reproduce common components easily using Re-frame. In this course, we take that approach. We build individual, interactive components, going through the design decisions we have to make. Ever been completely baffled by Wikipedia articles on Monads and Functors? Are you curious about what everybody is raving about, but can’t find any good ways to learn it? It turns out that many of the ideas of category theory come almost directly from the real world. Wouldn’t you like to understand how those concepts relate to the real world? Clojure is based on collections, but how are they used? What are some patterns for making the most of them? This course introduces you to the workhorses of the Clojure programming language, the immutable collections.3 Functional Tools
Answers to Questions
Beginning with Clojure Macros
Building Re-frame Components
Category Theory from the Universe Up
Clojure Collections
Video Lessons
Parts of courses on specific topics Now that we have an efficient way of fetching ingredients, let’s handle the orders for the day. Do you understand the pattern of using helper functions within a macro and how it can make your macro more useful and easier to understand? This lesson teaches how to read in JSON and explore data. This lesson includes a video screencast. The screencast is 25 minutes long. Sometimes we need to get a reference to the real DOM node that React normally manages for us. For instance, when we need to play an embedded video, the API requires access to the DOM node of the video element. React gives us a feature called Refs that let us get access to any DOM node it creates. You know those HTML components that show you some headers and let you expand the content underneath? Yeah! Let’s build one! Let’s add a new ingredient, namely cocoa.A day at the bakery
A deeper explanation of with-open
A Game of JSON
Accessing DOM nodes
Accordion Component
Add cocoa
Technical Articles
Down on React? You should check it out from the ClojureScript perspective. How is it possible that Clojure is better than Java at its own game? Hear me out, then decide for yourself. Clojure was designed as a hosted language. So what is Clojure, the language, if it relies on the features of a host? And what are the disadvantages of choosing the JVM as a host? People know about the immutable data
structures and the STM. But there’s something going on at a much
deeper level that is really hard to get right in Java. It has to do
with the optimizations the JIT will run on your code. Many of us have to use JavaScript. But does that mean we can’t use functional programming? Sure, with discipline. But can we make it even easier? Clojure startup times suck. Let’s just be honest. How do Clojure programmers live with that? Maybe that’s the wrong way to think about it.6 things Reacters do that Re-framers avoid
Clojure is a better Java than Java
Clojure’s Hosted Legacy
Clojure’s unsung heroics with concurrency
Functional JavaScript
How do Clojure Programmers Deal with Long Startup Times
Speaker Interviews
We interviewed Adam Warski about his upcoming Lambda Days 2017 talk. We interviewed Alex Mann about his upcoming Clojure/conj 2016 talk about machine learning in Clojure applied to the English language. We Interviewed Alex Miller about his upcoming Euro Clojure talk called Dependency Heaven. We Interviewed Alexey Aristov about his upcoming EuroClojure 2017 talk called otplike – Erlang/OTP processes and behaviours for Clojure. We Interviewed Ali Shoker about his upcoming Curry On 2017 talk about There are no BFT Fans Anymore. We interviewed Allen Rohner about his upcoming Clojure/conj 2016 talk about Spectrum, a static typing library for Clojure.Adam Warski Lambda Days 2017 Interview
Alex Mann Clojure/conj 2016 Speaker Interview
Alex Miller EuroClojure 2017 Interview
Alexey Aristov EuroClojure 2017 Interview
Ali Shoker Curry On 2017 Interview
Allen Rohner Clojure/conj 2016 Speaker Interview
Newsletter Issues
Issue 278 – June 10, 2018 · Archives · Subscribe Hi Fellow Clojurers, I took a break from the newsletter for three weeks while I traveled. Sorry if it seemed like I disappeared. I’m still here. The good news is, people missed me! That means this little newsletter has some non-zero value. Before I left, […] Issue 277 – May 14, 2018 · Archives · Subscribe Hi Clojurers, In January and February, I met online one-on-one with dozens of my members. It was great. One thing that came up over and over was that people were looking for jobs. I took to the challenge and helped connect people with Clojurists I […] Issue 276 – May 07, 2018 · Archives · Subscribe Hi Clojurers, Please enjoy the issue. Rock on!Eric Normand <eric@purelyfunctional.tv> PS Want to get this in your email? Subscribe! Bottom up vs Top Down Programming In a recent episode of my podcast, I explored what it means to do top-down vs bottom-up programming. It seems […] Issue 275 – April 30, 2018 · Archives · Subscribe Hi Clojurers, Well, I think I can call the redesign done. People have been finding little areas that still need some work. But in general, people have been commenting to me that things are much easier to find on the new site. Please keep letting […] Issue 274 – April 23, 2018 · Archives · Subscribe Hi Clojurers, I’ve been getting into Datomic recently. People ask me to make a course on it, but even though I’ve used it at two different companies, I don’t feel like I’ve quite got a good handle on how to use it. Mostly, Datomic’s information […] Issue 273 – April 16, 2018 · Archives · Subscribe Hi Clojurers, Besides working on the new design, I’ve been catching up on conference talks from around the world. There have been some great ones and I try to capture some of the ideas stirring around the growing Functional Programming community. Please enjoy the issue. […]PurelyFunctional.tv Newsletter 278: Parinfer, Naming, GraphQL
PurelyFunctional.tv Newsletter 277: Clojure Career Workshop
PurelyFunctional.tv Newsletter 276: Turing, Bottom-up Design, go blocks
PurelyFunctional.tv Newsletter 275: Data, Spec, Types
PurelyFunctional.tv Newsletter 274: Datomic, Strange Loop, Clojurists Together
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