Quick Clojure: Effective Functional Programming

by Mark McDonnell

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
Who This Book Is For 
Programmers with experience.  A Java background would be helpful, but not required.

221 pages, Paperback

Published August 25, 2017

Reviews

[Alexander Yakushev · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another mediocre introductory book to Clojure. Written in a very dry manner, it's not much different from the information you can find online, and then again, the quality of the latter would be higher.

[Jimbo · Rating 2 out of 5]

I very rarely meet programming textbooks that I don't like. This one fails on two fronts. First, it's not that quick, despite the title. It's weirdly wordy and slow. Second, too many of the explanations smell like the author doesn't quite grok what he's explaining. Gave up after Chapter 4.