Clojure Fundamentals For Beginners

Introduction to the Clojure programming language from ground up

What you'll learn

Learn the concepts behind the Clojure programming langauge

Learn to set up clojure development environment

Master the language syntax and fundamentals

Learn functional programming with clojure

Learn concurrent programming with clojure

Requirements

Students should have basic knowledge of a JVM language like java or scala

Description

There are three types of programmers – those who write small programs, those who write big programs and those who write small programs that do big things. The last type of programmers are often considered as experts.


Although, originally programs required hours of long coding to do even the smallest of computation, today one line programs can do so much more than the n number of lines required. The need to break away from the tedious long and complex coding is what resulted in the creation of functional programming languages.


Functional programming languages depend on mathematical functions to compute problems and the results of a code are dependent on the arguments put into the function rather than the statements.


This is where Clojure, a functional programming language comes into the picture.

Clojure is a functional programming language that is a dialect of Lisp Programming language. The language was designed for Java Virtual Machines (JVMs), Common Language Runtime and JavaScript engines. It uses a programming approach that allows you to write much of the application code as a series of pure functions and is immutable.


Clojure has a macro system and treats code as data, a term that means programming structure of the language is similar to the language’s syntax. The language was created by Rich Hickey because he wanted a language that was a LISP-based functional programming language that was designed for concurrency and was symbiotic with an established platform. So, he created the powerful Clojure programming language!


And we created a course to help users learn this powerful functional language.

Our Clojure tutorial is a complete course that is designed to teach you not only the conceptual and fundamentals of Clojure but to also help you understand the design behind the language. It will cover all ins and outs of Clojure, including the basics.


Once we understand the basics, we will delve further into the language by dissecting small blocks of Clojure code to understand how it functions. Additionally, we will also go into detail about the various features of Clojure such as abstractions, data structures, forms, macros, symbols, functions, vector types, sequences, lists, etc.


So, what are you waiting for? Click enroll and let’s start writing small programs that do bigger things!!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Clojure Concepts

Lecture 2 Why Clojure

Lecture 3 JVM Languages

Lecture 4 Clojure Success Stories

Section 3: Set up a Clojure Development Environment

Lecture 5 Leiningen Environment

Lecture 6 Gradle Environment

Lecture 7 Clojure Application Packaging

Section 4: Language Fundamentals

Lecture 8 Basic Syntax

Lecture 9 Clojure Core Functions

Lecture 10 Advanced Clojure Concepts ( Macros )

Section 5: Functional Programming with Clojure

Lecture 11 Functional recipe: Pure functions with Immutable Data Structures

Lecture 12 Functional Recursive Data Flow

Lecture 13 Functional Composition

Section 6: Concurrent Programming with Clojure

Lecture 14 Clojure Memory Model

Lecture 15 Clojure Concurrent tools: Atoms, Agents, Refs and Vars

Lecture 16 Clojure Process (core.async)

Section 7: Clojure Applications

Lecture 17 Clojure and Java

Lecture 18 Clojure and JavaScript

Lecture 19 Clojure Web Applications

Section 8: Summary

Lecture 20 Summary

Lecture 21 Bonus Lecture: More Interesting Stuff, Offers and Discounts

Students who want to learn functional programming with Clojure will find this course absolutely resourceful