Daniel Higginbotham

Clojure For The Brave And True

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For weeks, months nay! from the very moment you were born, you ve felt it calling to you. At long last you ll be united with the programming language you ve been longing for: Clojure!

As a Lisp-style functional programming language, Clojure lets you write robust and elegant code, and because it runs on the Java Virtual Machine, you can take advantage of the vast Java ecosystem. Clojure for the Brave and True offers a "dessert-first" approach: you ll start playing with real programs immediately, as you steadily acclimate to the abstract but powerful features of Lisp and functional programming. Inside you ll find an offbeat, practical guide to Clojure, filled with quirky sample programs that catch cheese thieves and track glittery vampires.

Learn how to:
Wield Clojure s core functions
Use Emacs for Clojure development
Write macros to modify Clojure itself
Use Clojure s tools to simplify concurrency and parallel programming

Clojure for the Brave and True assumes no prior experience with Clojure, the Java Virtual Machine, or functional programming. Are you ready, brave reader, to meet your true destiny? Grab your best pair of parentheses you re about to embark on an epic journey into the world of Clojure!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: No Starch Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 177mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9781593275914
• ISBN-10: 1593275919
• Artikelnr.: 41623824

Autorenporträt

Daniel Higginbotham

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Environment Setup
Chapter 1: Building, Running, and the REPL
Chapter 2: How to Use Emacs, an Excellent Clojure Editor
Part II: Language Fundamentals
Chapter 3: Do Things: A Clojure Language Crash Course
Chapter 4: Core Functions in Depth
Chapter 5: Functional Programming
Chapter 6: Organizing Your Project: a Librarian's Tale
Chapter 7: Clojure Alchemy: Reading, Evaluation, and Macros
Chapter 8: Writing Macros
Part III: Advanced Topics
Chapter 9: Concurrent and Parallel Programming
Chapter 10: Clojure Metaphysics: Atoms, Refs, Vars, and Cuddle Zombies
Chapter 11: Master Concurrent Processes with core.async
Chapter 12: Interacting with Java
Chapter 13: Create and Extend Abstractions with Multimethods, Protocols, and Records
Appendix A: Building and Developing with Leiningen
Appendix B: Boot, the Fancy Clojure Build Framework

Rezensionen

"Daniel's approach is refreshing because most of the programming books I ve read are drier than a camel s fart. We are fortunate that Daniel is a brilliant programmer and writer and that his wife Jess is an equally brilliant illustrator. We are especially fortunate that they both went insane and decided to write a book at exactly the same time."
Alan Dipert, from the Foreword

"This book is a valuable starting point for exploring Clojure, supplying a coherent and current view of the full landscape."
Computing Reviews

"I am not the target audience for this book as I not a new Clojure developer, however it was so much fun to read that I read it anyways. If you're looking for a way to start Clojure with fun examples and engaging explanations, I heartily recommend that you check out Clojure for the Brave and True."
Alex Miller, Clojure developer for Cognitect

"Strike[s] that balance between teaching an advanced topic and making it fun without dumbing it down...highly recommended!"
Adam Tornhill, programmer, psychologist, and Lisp hacker