Clojure - from beginner to advanced

Name: Clojure - from beginner to advanced
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Go from beginner to expert in Clojure development

Created byCode gurus by Catalin

Last updated 1/2024

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What you'll learn

Clojure development
Set up Clojure environment
Basics of Clojure development
Advanced Clojure topics
Practical application development
Concurrent programming in Clojure

Course content

7 sections • 58 lectures • 6h 0m total length

Introduction2:14
Begin your journey with an introduction to closure and how to install it. Explore language basics, primitive data types, simple data structures, and control structures, with functions, macros, and concurrency.
A quick word about Udemy reviews0:32
Freebies and updates0:03
What is Clojure and brief history2:54
Important message about Udemy reviews1:08
Clojure installation on Windows2:09
Clojure installation on MacOS3:04
Clojure installation on Linux2:51
Clojure installation4:24
Leiningen - clojure project manager2:51
IDE installation3:25
Explore popular integrated development environments for Clojure, including Emacs with SLIME, and Cursive and Visual Studio Code with Calibur, highlighting REPL integration, in-line documentation, and code navigation.
REPL5:31
Hello world7:03

Section overview1:15
Syntax, clojure expressions5:37
Global variables and function definition4:37
Define global variables with def in current namespace, setting X to 42, and create global functions with defn, outlining name, arg vector, and body whose last form is the result.
Primitive data types11:46
Basic data structures15:48
Explore basic data structures in Clojure, including lists, vectors, sets, and maps, and learn core operations like concat, first, rest, drop, get with default values, and merge.
Immutability3:32

Section overview1:40
Java interoperability5:11
File I/O4:22
Learn how to perform file input and output in Clojure with slurp and spit, manage resources with with-open, and use Java interop to check existence and delete files.
Dependencies in Leiningen project2:34
Learn to manage dependencies in Leiningen by adding libraries to the project file, reloading the app to download them, and using the terminal to require and use external packages.
JSON processing3:00
HTTP client, server, routing7:31
Learn to use a clojure http library to perform http requests and spin up a http server with a handler on localhost:3000, and define routes with defroutes and composable roads.
HTML templating7:14
SQL databases: postgres3:47
NoSQL databases: mongo4:25
Testing in Leiningen project6:04
Go-like concurrency library3:27

Requirements

Mac or PC
Interest in Clojure and willingness to learn

Description

Clojure is the most widely used member of the Lisp family of programming languages, the second oldest high level programming language family in widespread use today.

In a 2019 survey, StackOverflow named Clojure the highest earning programming language worldwide, and second highest in the United States.

This course will

take you from a complete beginner in Clojure
explain in detail the theoretical aspects of Clojure development
implement it in a practical application, to show you a real world scenario

After this course you will have the knowledge and experience to use Clojure in all your development projects.

Basic topics will cover:

Leiningen
REPL
Syntax
Variables and functions
Primitive data types
Data structures
Control structures
let
Loops
Exception handling
Namespaces
Functional programming
Destructuring
Recursions
Closures

Advanced topics will include:

Dynamic and lexical scopes
Read-Eval-Apply
Macros
Reducers and transducers
Concurrent programming
Various libraries and tools

We cover a lot of ground in this course, and we will implement the concepts practically so that you get not only theoretical knowledge but practical experience as well.

Sign up today, and let's learn all you need to know about Clojure.

Who this course is for:

Beginner Clojure developers
Intermediate Clojure developers
Java developers
Lisp developers

Clojure - from beginner to advanced

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Course content

Introduction13 lectures • 38min

Language basics6 lectures • 43min

Language structures11 lectures • 1hr 21min

Advanced language concepts8 lectures • 50min

Ecosystem and useful libraries11 lectures • 49min

Project8 lectures • 1hr 38min

Conclusion1 lecture • 1min

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