Clojure for the brave and true : learn the ultimate language and become a better programmer / Daniel Higginbotham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higginbotham, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clojure (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, California : No Starch Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Learn simple programming skills to automate everyday computer tasks.

Contents:

About the Author ; About the Technical Reviewer ; Brief Contents ; Contents in Detail ; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Learning a New Programming Language: A Journey Through the Four Labyrinths; How This Book Is Organized; Part I: Environment Setup; Part II: Language Fundamentals; Part III: Advanced Topics; The Code; The Journey Begins!; Part I: Environment Setup; Chapter 1: Building, Running, and the REPL; First Things First: What Is Clojure?; Leiningen; Creating a New Clojure Project; Running the Clojure Project; Building the Clojure Project; Using the REPL; Clojure Editors

SummaryChapter 2: How to Use Emacs, an Excellent Clojure Editor; Installation; Configuration; Emacs Escape Hatch; Emacs Buffers; Working with Files; Key Bindings and Modes; Emacs Is a Lisp Interpreter; Modes; Installing Packages; Core Editing Terminology and Key Bindings; Point; Movement; Selection with Regions; Killing and the Kill Ring; Editing and Help; Using Emacs with Clojure; Fire Up Your REPL!; Interlude: Emacs Windows and Frames; A Cornucopia of Useful Key Bindings; How to Handle Errors; Paredit; Continue Learning; Summary; Part II: Language Fundamentals

Chapter 3: Do Things: A Clojure Crash CourseSyntax; Forms; Control Flow; Naming Values with def; Data Structures; Numbers; Strings; Maps; Keywords; Vectors; Lists; Sets; Simplicity; Functions; Calling Functions; Function Calls, Macro Calls, and Special Forms; Defining Functions; Anonymous Functions; Returning Functions; Pulling It All Together; The Shire's Next Top Model; let; loop; Regular Expressions; Symmetrizer; Better Symmetrizer with reduce; Hobbit Violence; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 4: Core Functions in Depth; Programming to Abstractions

Treating Lists, Vectors, Sets, and Maps as Sequencesfirst, rest, and cons; Abstraction Through Indirection; Seq Function Examples; map; reduce; take, drop, take-while, and drop-while; filter and some; sort and sort-by; concat; Lazy Seqs; Demonstrating Lazy Seq Efficiency; Infinite Sequences ; The Collection Abstraction; into; conj; Function Functions; apply; partial; complement; A Vampire Data Analysis Program for the FWPD; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 5: Functional Programming; Pure Functions: What and Why; Pure Functions Are Referentially Transparent; Pure Functions Have No Side Effects

Living with Immutable Data StructuresRecursion Instead of for/while; Function Composition Instead of Attribute Mutation; Cool Things to Do with Pure Functions; comp; memoize; Peg Thing; Playing; Code Organization; Creating the Board; Moving Pegs; Rendering and Printing the Board; Player Interaction; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 6: Organizing Your Project: A Librarian's Tale; Your Project as a Library; Storing Objects with def; Creating and Switching to Namespaces; refer; alias; Real Project Organization; The Relationship Between File Paths and Namespace Names; Requiring and Using Namespaces

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781457190018

145719001X

9781593277239

1593277237

9781593275914

1593275919

OCLC:

924210284