My company Likely hosted a Clojure School for four weeks from 12th November 2013. Targeted at professional software developers, it aimed to teach the fundamentals of the Clojure programming language in a practical way.

Syllabus

Each class focused on a particular aspect of the Clojure language or its libraries and walked students from the absolute basics to implementing a multiplayer browser based game over WebSockets.

The topics for each week were presented as on slides with regular Q&A and breaks for exercises. The org documents from which the slides were generated are linked below.

• Part 1
  • Setting up with Leiningen & the REPL
  • Data types
  • Collection types
  • Functions
  • Higher-order functions
  • Example code
• Part 2
  • Web development with Clojure
  • Ring, Compojure, Hiccup
  • Mutable state and STM
  • Atoms, Agents, Refs
  • Multithreading with Future
• Part 3
  • Macros
  • Techniques for managing concurrency
  • Core.async and CSP
  • ClojureScript
  • Homework template
• Part 4
  • Polymorphism in Clojure
  • Protocols
  • Multimethods
  • Websockets and channels
  • Building a multiplayer game of snake!
  • Example code

Thanks

Clojure School was part of a series of courses organised with help from Dactic.