Learn Clojure as a holiday project

by edd_dumbill • 15 years ago

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edd_dumbill3• 15 years ago

This came out of me needing an excuse to write some Clojure, and wanting to model a simple coin-tossing game. What started as a guide to Clojure for busy programmers probably makes a right-sized holiday hacking project.

Lio• 15 years ago

Thanks for the article Edd. I've been meaning to have a go at Clojure since I started playing with Lisp/Scheme.

(One side point, that background is a little hard to read against; it actually started to give me a headache... :)

edd_dumbill3• 15 years ago

Thanks Lio. Let me know what you think. Also, I got rid of the background. Seems my evil plan to hypnotize the population of HN might not actually work out.

jherdman2• 15 years ago

Sounds interesting, but... I think your site is down.

edd_dumbill3• 15 years ago

Working here. Try again? It's hosted on Tumblr.

tednaleid• 15 years ago

I'm just diving into clojure now and have finally gotten my vim environment set up with a working repl (war scars here for vim users trying to get going: http://naleid.com/blog/2011/12/19/getting-a-clojure-repl-in-...)

This is exactly the kind of next step I was looking for beyond the 4clojure and clojure koans stuff. I'll be working through it this weekend. Thanks!

SonySeng• 15 years ago

I just read through this at work (Slow day before Holidays). Very nice. I've also been going through The Joy of Clojure as a beginner book to lisp and small projects like this are very helpful. I learn the same way. If something seems daunting or if something seems trivial, I am not as motivated. There is a good balance that I have to find.

Kittynana• 15 years ago

Thanks for this. It's hard to find good examples that are so thoroughly explained and aren't trivial.

cmansley• 15 years ago

Just a note. The distribution being created here is the Binomial distribution. It just so happens that because of the central limit theorem, you can approximate it with the Gaussian distribution. For a low number of samples (n<20), this approximation will degrade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution#Normal_ap...

whateverer• 15 years ago

The tutorial looks lovely but... if you have good a relationship with your family or have close friends, wouldn't it be better to spend time with them rather than learning Clojure these holidays? There will be plenty of time for Clojure the rest of the year, but this is a special occasion.

Learn Clojure as a holiday project

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