3Do Things: A Clojure Crash Course

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It’s time to learn how to actually do things with Clojure! Hot damn! Although you’ve undoubtedly heard of Clojure’s awesome concurrency support and other stupendous features, Clojure’s most salient characteristic is that it is a Lisp. In this chapter, you’ll explore the elements that compose this Lisp core: syntax, functions, and data. Together they will give you a solid foundation for representing and solving problems in Clojure.

After laying this groundwork, you will be able to write some super important code. In the last section, you’ll tie everything together by creating a model of a hobbit and writing a ...

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