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264 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2016
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December 4, 2020
Not a perfect book, and too expensive for what you get; however, this was a pragmatic and helpful introduction to Clojure and ClojureScript.
Good things about the book:
- Good, simple, overview of testing
- Great overview of ClojureScript tooling (needs updating for shadow-cljs)
- Read this from cover to cover and you'll be ready to build Clojure web apps, actually!
- The Datomic chapter is great. It's better than the official Datomic documentation as an introduction to the database and to Datalog
Problems with the book:
- It's expensive for what it is, this is text book level prices for what's ultimately a light overview of Clojure
- A few times they use the word "memorization" when they mean "memoization" early on in the book
- Over-emphasis on functional programming concepts at the start of the book, which is typical of Clojure literature. We get it already.
- 100% focus on web applications. I would have liked an exploration of scientific computing.
- Over-emphasis on Datomic. We need some non-trivial SQL examples and patterns as well
Good things about the book:
- Good, simple, overview of testing
- Great overview of ClojureScript tooling (needs updating for shadow-cljs)
- Read this from cover to cover and you'll be ready to build Clojure web apps, actually!
- The Datomic chapter is great. It's better than the official Datomic documentation as an introduction to the database and to Datalog
Problems with the book:
- It's expensive for what it is, this is text book level prices for what's ultimately a light overview of Clojure
- A few times they use the word "memorization" when they mean "memoization" early on in the book
- Over-emphasis on functional programming concepts at the start of the book, which is typical of Clojure literature. We get it already.
- 100% focus on web applications. I would have liked an exploration of scientific computing.
- Over-emphasis on Datomic. We need some non-trivial SQL examples and patterns as well
January 10, 2018
A nice introduction to the capacities of the language for practices like TDD, interactive development, and some recommended libraries. Not as inspiring as some Clojure books, but probably a good resource to revisit.
November 15, 2019
The book is overral very good at explaining some best practices. However, the chapter about the Datomic is a must-read if you are interested in the subject. Very detailed view and explanation about the concepts.
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