Clojadelphia Intermediate Clojure Course

Curriculum for intermediate-level coursework in Clojure. You got the basics down, right? Now it's time to take the next step: learn the tooling, ecosystem, idioms, how to create and work on real-world projects in Clojure!

Lesson Outline

• Idiomatic Clojure

  • How not to write Blub in Clojure
  • Thinking in Clojure
  • Thinking in Data
    • Combinators,
    • Data Transformations
    • Data > Functions > Macros - Why What does this mean?

• The Clojure REPL

  • Jacking in
  • REPL-driven development, REPL-oriented workflows, e.g. Stuart Sierra's Component
    • Are there others?

• Clojure concurrency

  • Refs
  • Atoms
  • Agents

• Advanced Java Interop

  • Working with Java classes / interfaces in Clojure
  • Implementing interfaces / extending classes for Java consumption
  • Is it a fully two-way street? Is one harder than the other?

• Leiningen

  • What do I need to know to get started?
  • Capabilities
  • Best practices
  • Maven? Clojars? How do they fit in with lein? How much do I need to know about them?

• Libraries

  • I'm about to write some code;
    • Should I, or is there a library for it already written?
    • How do I know?
    • Where do I look?
  • Incorporating libraries into my project

• Structuring your code

  • Understanding namespaces
    • How do I tell the difference between and know when to use:
      • :use?
      • :require?
      • :refer?

• Web Development

  • Tour of the ecosystem. I've heard of so many different clojure libs/frameworks for web development . . . Why so much apparent library churn? Which of these do I need to know about today? Which ones did I not know about but should be on this list?

    • Noire
    • Ring
    • Compojure
    • Hoplon
    • Pedestal
    • Transit

  • To Clojurescript or not?

    • Isomorphic Clojure?
    • Targetting the JVM vs. JS, how to write shared code
    • Om
    • lein-figwheel

• Interacting with, choosing a data store

  • RDBMS?
  • NOSQL?
  • Datomic?

• Microservices?