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Quick Clojure

Effective Functional Programming

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Mark McDonnell

    1. southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

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  • Learn and apply the Clojure programming language
  • Employ OOP in Clojure with patterns, polymorphisms, and concurrency
  • Build Clojure projects with the Leiningen IDE tool and framework

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. What Is Clojure?

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 1-7

  3. Data Structures and Syntax

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 9-28

  4. Functional Programming

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 29-43

  5. Sequences

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 45-53

  6. Functions

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 55-77

  7. Destructuring

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 79-83

  8. Pattern Matching

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 85-94

  9. Concurrency

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 95-123

  10. Namespaces

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 125-136

  11. Macros

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 137-146

  12. Object Orientation

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 147-153

  13. Leiningen

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 155-174

  14. Command-Line Applications

    • Mark McDonnell
    Pages 175-183

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 185-200
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About this book

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.








Authors and Affiliations

  • southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

    Mark McDonnell

About the author

Mark McDonnell is a Senior Software Engineer at BuzzFeed and was a software developer with BBC and StormCreative.  He is a Polyglot programmer with experience in Clojure, Lisp, Vim, Tmax and other scripting languages.  He has published books with Apress as well as self-published.  





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