Interactive ClojureScript book
Learning and science
programming book
SHOW HN2017
134points
11comments
#300of 2,242 in 2017
Top 14%of 2017 by points
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MixedNo clear lean
5 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.44.
Execution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Well done and useful for learning functional programming
From 4 comments
There are a lack of resources out there for things like this. Especially with functional programming. This is very well done explaining the fundamentals of FP along with having…
specialp on HNI was just trying to figure out how to get started with ClojureScript the other day. This looks fantastic—particularly Appendix C (http://langintro.com/cljsbook/appendix_c.html)
peatmoss on HNThat is really beautifully done, good job!
mark_l_watson on HNThis is great work! I prolong learning ClojureScript for too long now - comes to the right time!
symboltoproc on HN
Fills a lack of resources for functional programming beginners
From 1 comment
There are a lack of resources out there for things like this. Especially with functional programming. This is very well done explaining the fundamentals of FP along with having…
specialp on HN
Objections
Does not compare functional map/filter/reduce to for-loops
From 1 comment
Very cool. I'm happy you're doing this. Greetings from #clojurewest by the way! Yo, I have not gone through all the pages yet, but I'm hoping you jump to map/filter/reduce and…
sova on HN
Requests
Add a page on list comprehensions
From 1 comment
I do discuss map/filter/reduce, but not in comparison to for-loops, as the book presumes that FP is the only thing there is (analogous to how imperative language books don't…
jdeisenberg on HN