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Ask HN: How to learn Clojure

7 points by holgersindbaek ↗ HN
I come from a Rails background and I've caught an interest in Clojure. Seems like a great way to scale rails.

How do I best get started with Clojure? Can anyone point me to tutorials/videos/books and such?

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notacylon
You'll have lots of fun picking up Clojure. I'd recommend 'Clojure programming' by Chas Emerick... or 'Programming Clojure' by Stuart Halloway.. to get started and then 'The Joy of Clojure' by Fogus. My advice would be to not immediately get bogged down by taking on a large project (like an existing rails app) if you don't already have some experience with functional programming. You'll have a much nicer perspective on the Clojure way of doing things after you work through those books.
holgersindbaek
Ok, thanks. I'll definitely look into it.

Is there some online tutorials as well? Scala has Scalatra for example, which is a great way to get started.