Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition

Table of Contents

1. Programming Clojure
   1. Copyright
   2. For the Best Reading Experience...
   3. ​
   4. Table of Contents
   5. What Readers Are Saying About Programming Clojure, Second Edition
   6. Foreword for the Second Edition
   7. Foreword for the First Edition
   8. Acknowledgments
   9. Preface
      1. Who This Book Is For
      2. What Is in This Book
      3. How to Read This Book
      4. Notation Conventions
      5. Web Resources and Feedback
      6. Downloading Sample Code
   10. Chapter 1: Getting Started
       1. Why Clojure?
       2. Clojure Coding Quick Start
       3. Exploring Clojure Libraries
       4. Wrapping Up
   11. Chapter 2: Exploring Clojure
       1. Forms
       2. Reader Macros
       3. Functions
       4. Vars, Bindings, and Namespaces
       5. Calling Java
       6. Flow Control
       7. Where’s My for Loop?
       8. Metadata
       9. Wrapping Up
   12. Chapter 3: Unifying Data with Sequences
       1. Everything Is a Sequence
       2. Using the Sequence Library
       3. Lazy and Infinite Sequences
       4. Clojure Makes Java Seq-able
       5. Calling Structure-Specific Functions
       6. Wrapping Up
   13. Chapter 4: Functional Programming
       1. Functional Programming Concepts
       2. How to Be Lazy
       3. Lazier Than Lazy
       4. Recursion Revisited
       5. Wrapping Up
   14. Chapter 5: State
       1. Concurrency, Parallelism, and Locking
       2. Refs and Software Transactional Memory
       3. Use Atoms for Uncoordinated, Synchronous Updates
       4. Use Agents for Asynchronous Updates
       5. Managing Per-Thread State with Vars
       6. A Clojure Snake
       7. Wrapping Up
   15. Chapter 6: Protocols and Datatypes
       1. Programming to Abstractions
       2. Interfaces
       3. Protocols
       4. Datatypes
       5. Records
       6. reify
       7. Wrapping Up
   16. Chapter 7: Macros
       1. When to Use Macros
       2. Writing a Control Flow Macro
       3. Making Macros Simpler
       4. Taxonomy of Macros
       5. Wrapping Up
   17. Chapter 8: Multimethods
       1. Living Without Multimethods
       2. Defining Multimethods
       3. Moving Beyond Simple Dispatch
       4. Creating Ad Hoc Taxonomies
       5. When Should I Use Multimethods?
       6. Wrapping Up
   18. Chapter 9: Java Down and Dirty
       1. Exception Handling
       2. Wrestling with the Integers
       3. Optimizing for Performance
       4. Creating Java Classes in Clojure
       5. A Real-World Example
       6. Wrapping Up
   19. Chapter 10: Building an Application
       1. Scoring a Clojurebreaker Game
       2. Testing the Scorer
       3. test.generative
       4. Creating an Interface
       5. Deploying Your Code
       6. Farewell
   20. Appendix 1: Editor Support
   21. Appendix 2: Bibliography
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