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The Joy of Clojure 2nd Edition

by Michael Fogus (Author), Chris Houser (Author)

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The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition is a deep look at the Clojure language. Fully updated for Clojure 1.6, this new edition goes beyond just syntax to show you the "why" of Clojure and how to write fluent Clojure code. You'll learn functional and declarative approaches to programming and will master the techniques that make Clojure so elegant and efficient.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

The Clojure programming language is a dialect of Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and JavaScript runtimes. It is a functional programming language that offers great performance, expressive power, and stability by design. It gives you built-in concurrency and the predictable precision of immutable and persistent data structures. And it's really, really fast. The instant you see long blocks of Java or Ruby dissolve into a few lines of Clojure, you'll know why the authors of this book call it a "joyful language." It's no wonder that enterprises like Staples are betting their infrastructure on Clojure.

About the Book

The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition is a deep account of the Clojure language. Fully updated for Clojure 1.6, this new edition goes beyond the syntax to show you how to write fluent Clojure code. You'll learn functional and declarative approaches to programming and will master techniques that make Clojure elegant and efficient. The book shows you how to solve hard problems related to concurrency, interoperability, and performance, and how great it can be to think in the Clojure way.

Appropriate for readers with some experience using Clojure or common Lisp.

What's Inside

Build web apps using ClojureScript
Master functional programming techniques
Simplify concurrency
Covers Clojure 1.6

About the Authors

Michael Fogus and Chris Houser are contributors to the Clojure and ClojureScript programming languages and the authors of various Clojure libraries and language features.

Table of Contents

PART 1 FOUNDATIONS
Clojure philosophy
Drinking from the Clojure fire hose
Dipping your toes in the pool
PART 2 DATA TYPES
On scalars
Collection types
PART 3 FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING
Being lazy and set in your ways
Functional programming
PART 4 LARGE-SCALE DESIGN
Macros
Combining data and code
Mutation and concurrency
Parallelism
PART 5 HOST SYMBIOSIS
Java.next
Why ClojureScript?
PART 6 TANGENTIAL CONSIDERATIONS
Data-oriented programming
Performance
Thinking programs
Clojure changes the way you think

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1617291412
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978-1617291418
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2nd
Publisher

Manning
Publication date

June 13, 2014
Language

English
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7.38 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches
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520 pages
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About the Author

Michael Fogus is a programmer in the DC area specializing in artificial intelligence, compilation, code generation, and distributed simulation systems. He is also a contributor to the Clojure and ClojureScript programming languages and author of various Clojure-contrib libraries.

Chris Houser is a software developer at LonoCloud. His lifelong passion for programming began when he was a child and drives him to continue learning and exploring new languages today. He's currently a primary contributor to Clojure and has implemented several features for the language.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning; 2nd edition (June 13, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 520 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1617291412
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1617291418
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.83 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches

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Tim Downey

The Joy of Clojure does a great job of laying the ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2015

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As someone with extensive experience in Java, but new to Clojure, The Joy of Clojure does a great job of laying the necessary foundation to start doing serious development in Clojure. As others have noted, you can learn the syntax of Clojure very quickly, but learning to develop in idiomatic Clojure is a much longer process. Fogus does a good job of explaining some fairly complicated concepts in a fashion that programmers with an object oriented background will be able to pick up.

I've definitely found myself having to reread sections here and there, but overall the pace does a good job of letting things sink in. You'll definitely do best if you fire up a REPL and play around while you read.

I've definitely seen enough of Clojure to want to use it for real projects. The trick is figuring out how to get the company and rest of the team comfortable enough to make the switch!

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Justice

A good mixture of introduction and design philosophy

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2021

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The book nicely combines introduction of the clojure language many of the design principles and philosophy. It'd be nice to see more discussion on the usage of the language in a real world large scale project though.

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Stephane

Wonderfully written, note the free ebook

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2014

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Wonderfully written -- one of these books that takes you aside and "talks" to you (as an adult -- this is no introduction to programming, and probably not a "first contact with a second language" either). The free ebook is convenient, I really hope this becomes standard (as opposed to what some other publishers do, forcing you to choose).

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Chris

An iconic book on Clojure

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2019

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Lives up to it's iconic stature, is a great book with practical discussions on the basic language.

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016

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Best book about Clojure

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Arun Noronha

Build yourself a great clojure foundation ..... makes clojure programming a true joy!!!

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2014

Having an interest in seeing what the hype was about for the clojure language I started to read this book and was totally lost in the language. Before I knew it I could not keep my hands off the exercises following along intently, as the author walked me from novice snippets to pretty involved programs and it made for a great progression of concepts and code.

This is a great book not only just about the clojure language in particular, but the lisp family and more generally functional programming.
Throughout the book I had a great sense that the authors were not just interested in laying out code but were more intent on setting a deep context for learning how the particular idiomatic clojure code came about.

The author carefully walks you through the journey of lisp and clojure purpose in the software development landscape in PART 1, builds you basics in PART 2, walks you through the functional programming aspects of Clojure in PART 3 and opens up the language for true application development in PART 4 where aspects such as organization, associating code and structures, concurrency and parallelism are covered. PART 5 you learn to play nice with your host. And PART 6 is chalk full of just great ways to think through implementation consideration as you code your way with clojure, this part will really bring together a lot of the overarching "why's" throughout when you reread the book.

One of the key aspects for me was in PART 3 great coverage in immutability and then also coverage of mutation specifics for clojure in PART 4. This makes it a very pragmatic approach. It also opened me to the Software transaction memory which is really awesome and its elegance as an approach to concurrency. PART 6 has many great recipes for approaches to development in clojure - concepts like unification, logic programming, constraints that were awesome to discover again. And if you stick to the end you will even walk through coding a SQL like DSL in clojure :).

I came away with a very good understanding of data oriented programming from the clojure/functional standpoint and thank the authors for a very well written book, one that I would highly recommend!!

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Si Dunn

A well-written and soulful introduction to a powerful--yet often overlooked--programming language

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2014

Several times, I have played a little bit with Clojure and considered learning it. But I kept deciding that it looked weird, required a lot of parentheses and put its operators in strange places. And it ranked very low on the various lists of "popular" languages. So I moved on and put my focus elsewhere. I ignored the first edition of this book, but I am very glad that I have had a chance to review this new edition from Manning. The book is intelligently and pleasantly written, and the authors do an excellent job of explaining--and "selling"--Clojure to skeptics like me. Compared to many other programming languages, Clojure is compact, it is focused on functional programming, and it supports concurrency. "The Joy of Clojure" is not a book for absolute beginners, but Clojure is very easy to install (I have it running on a Windows PC and a Linux PC), and the book's code examples work well with Clojure's Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL). I don't know how much "joy" there is in learning one of the Lisp languages. But with this fine book as a guide, I am getting a much better feel for Clojure and its possibilities. And I am enjoying the text and the examples. I am pleased to recommend "The Joy of Clojure" to others who have been curious but resistant. (Resistance, after all, is futile.)

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Um ótimo livro sobre Clojure

Reviewed in Brazil on March 16, 2019

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Li e foi uma experiência muito agradável, além de cobrir boa parte do que a linguagem oferece. Provavelmente o melhor livro sobre Clojure no mercado atualmente.

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Ysgard

Great book - informative and useful dive into Clojure with ...

Reviewed in Canada on July 19, 2017

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Great book - informative and useful dive into Clojure with lots of material for more general topics as well (functional programming, data-driven design, concurrency)

Tom

Good Because Not Basic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2016

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I came to this book having done some Clojure using various online resources and trawling other people's code. The problem is this gets you only so far. There is plenty of stuff out there that will get you through the surface layers but it's not enough to exploit the language to its full potential. That's where this book scores heavily and makes it stand above others. Highly recommended.

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Philipp Tiefenbacher

Best introduction to clojure I found

Reviewed in Germany on October 4, 2015

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It's really a joy to read this book :) I would like a hardcover edition though but this has nothing to do with the content of the book.

Might be hard for beginnend though. Since it's a lot about how clojure solves problems that arise in other languages you can only appreciate this if you allready know these other languages.

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Rich Evans

Great starting point for anyone interested in Clojure

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2015

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Anyone thinking of taking a look at Clojure; this is THE book to do it. Covers not just the how, but the why. An insightful read about a fantastic and elegant language.

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