Get up to speed with Clojure in this quick and practical primer. You'll learn the nuts and
bolts of functional programming data structures sequences destructuring pattern matching
polymorphism concurrency conventions and more. Author Mark McDonnell talks about
organization with namespaces how to change the language via macros object-oriented
programming and creating command-line apps. Finally he shows you how to write Clojure from
shell languages and interfaces such as Vim. After reading and using Quick Clojure you'll come
away with first-hand knowledge and advice on how to quickly adopt use and apply Clojure
without all the theoretical baggage that bigger books can sometimes bring. What You'll Learn
Work with data structures and their syntax Discover OOP in Clojure with patterns polymorphisms
pattern matching and concurrency Use conventions organization and namespaces in Clojure
Create command-line apps Build various Clojure projects with the Leiningen IDE tool and
framework Who This Book Is For Programmers with experience. A Java background would be helpful
but not required.
