《Clojure for the Brave and True》

《Clojure for the Brave and True》 内容介绍：

For weeks, months?—nay!—from the very moment you were born, you've felt it calling to you. At long last you'll be united with the programming language you've been longing for: Clojure! As a Lisp-style functional programming language, Clojure lets you write robust and elegant code, and because it runs on the Java Virtual Machine, you can take advantage of the vast Java ecosystem. Clojure for the Brave and True offers a "dessert-first" approach: you'll start playing with real programs immediately, as you steadily acclimate to the abstract but powerful features of Lisp and functional programming. Inside you'll find an offbeat, practical guide to Clojure, filled with quirky sample programs that catch cheese thieves and track glittery vampires. Learn how to: * Wield Clojure's core functions * Use Emacs for Clojure development * Write macros to modify Clojure itself * Use Clojure's tools to simplify concurrency and parallel programming Clojure for the Brave and True assumes no prior experience with Clojure, the Java Virtual Machine, or functional programming. Are you ready, brave reader, to meet your true destiny? Grab your best pair of parentheses—you're about to embark on an epic journey into the world of Clojure! Covers Clojure 1.7Requires Java 1.6 or later

作者Daniel Higginbotham介绍：

Daniel Higginbotham has been a professional programmer for 11 years, half of that at McKinsey & Company, where he used Clojure to build mobile and web applications. He has also contributed to the curriculum for ClojureBridge, an organization that offers free, beginner-friendly Clojure workshops for women. Daniel blogs about life and programming at http://flyingmachinestudios.com/, and can be found on Twitter, @nonrecursive. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and four cats.

《Clojure for the Brave and True》 目录大纲：

1. Building, Running, and The REPL
2. Start Using Emacs
3. Using Emacs with Clojure
4. Do Things
5. Core Functions in Depth
6. Functional Programming
7. Organizing Your Project: a Librarian's Tale
8. Clojure Alchemy: Reading, Evaluation, and Macros
9. Writing Macros
10. Concurrency, Parallelism, and State. And Zombies.
11. Mastering Concurrency with core.async
12. Interacting with Java
13. Multimethods, Protocols, and Records
14. Upcoming
15. Other Resources
16. About the Author