20 Clojure Links To Get You Up To Speed

June 06, 2009

Writing multi-threaded code is hard. If you’ve ever done concurrent programming, you’ll probably agree. Clojure offers a compelling alternative to traditional object-oriented approaches to programming and has garnered much attention from the Ruby community because of it’s elegant design that lets you get right to the essence of a problem.

What is Clojure?

Simply put, Clojure is a functional programming language for the Java Virtual Machine with several powerful features for building concurrent applications. In addition, Clojure is fast, robust, and a powerful general-purpose programming language. A dialect of Lisp, Clojure embraces traditional code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system, plus some syntactic sugar tailored to Java.

Now that version 1.0 is out and Stuart Halloway’s new book Programming Clojure just dropped, I’ve rounded up some of the best articles and tutorials on Clojure to you get you up to speed quickly.

Tutorials and Links

• A Clojure Tutorial by R. Mark Volkmann

• Programming Clojure book by Stuart Halloway

• Practical Common Lisp to Clojure by Stuart Halloway

• Clojure Series: Table of Contents by Eric Rochester

• Learning Clojure via Wikibooks

• Clojure Programming/Examples/API Examples via Wikibooks

• Clojure Programming/Tutorials and Tips via Wikibooks

Screencasts, Videos, and Presentations

• Functional Programming with Clojure by Phil Hagelberg (PeepCode)

• Clojure Series on Blip.tv by Rich Hickey

• Intro to Clojure by Brian Will (YouTube)

• Emacs with Clojure, Slime and Swank by Seth Buntin (Vimeo)

Tools and Setup

• Basic Clojure Setup by Telman Yusupov

• Setting Up Clojure for Mac OS X Leopard by Mark Reid

• Getting Emacs setup to write Clojure code by Phil Hagelberg

• Textmate Bundle for Clojure code by Scott Fleckenstein

• VimClojure, a Vim plugin for Clojure

Documentation

• Official Clojure site

• Official Clojure API

• Clojure Docs

• Clojure Coding Guidelines by Mark Volkmann