Get Programming with Clojure
Learning and science
programming book
SHOW HN2019
Get Programming with Clojure
Easy intro book to Clojure and immutability
getprogrammingwithclojure.comHow HN took it
11 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Design: 0 for, 7 againstIdea: 6 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Congratulations on the book and launch.
From 2 comments
congrats on the launch!
dustingetz on HNCongrats on the book Yehonathan! I remember meeting you at ClojuTre some years ago, nice to see you're keeping up the good work!
vikeri on HN
Free PDF samples of Units 0 and 1 are helpful.
From 1 comment
Great!
kranner on HN
Objections
Scrambled text unlocking animation is hard to read and user-hostile.
From 3 comments
I stopped reading because the letters kept "unlocking" and rotating in an annoying way. There are other less user-hostile Clojure guides.
ghubbard on HNAn obvious improvement would be to show the actual text of the book on the web pages, instead of showing gobbledygook and then (eventually) triggering a pointless animation that…
joosters on HNHow is this trending on Show HN? The text is unreadable. The letters lock, unlock and rotate. Can there be a more user hostile way of offering a free preview? From the Show HN…
hoveractive on HN
Preview mechanism feels like an insult or gimmick.
From 2 comments
Free PDF sample. I buy lots of books every year and I hope you sell many. But this method of obfuscation felt like an insult.
tomcam on HNI'm a fan of Manning books and I've bought several. But if this jumbled text gimmick was was my first introduction I'd run a mile.
afandian on HN
Unclear whether it is ready for Show HN without a real try-out.
From 1 comment
How is this trending on Show HN? The text is unreadable. The letters lock, unlock and rotate. Can there be a more user hostile way of offering a free preview? From the Show HN…
hoveractive on HN
Requests
Provide a PDF excerpt or free sample chapters.
From 2 comments
What would be, in your opinion, a down-to-earth approach to presenting information?
viebel on HNNot GP, but a PDF excerpt on your website works for most people. In this case if Manning will allow it.
kranner on HN
Write a guide to the JVM ecosystem for Clojure users.
From 2 comments
One missing link (or unfilled need) in Clojure books is a strong, robust guide on dealing with JVM's ecosystem and its associated shenanigans. A guide is needed for interfacing…
sansnomme on HNI would definitely buy this book. With so many things that leverage the JVM, and with new things like GraalVM, learning the JVM ecosystem from the perspective of a non-Java…
bsg75 on HN
Questions
When will more chapters be released?
From 1 comment
How soon before you release more chapters?
passthejoe on HN
Is Clojure still used in non-legacy environments?
From 2 comments
Is Clojure still getting used in non-legacy environments? I understand it was never meant to supplant Java or C#, but I tried to look up how to set up tooling and most of what I…
twoquestions on HNIt very much is, and growing, albeit slowly. My team uses it almost exclusively. I know Walmart uses it a lot, they even maintain a GraphQL open source framework for it. There's…
didibus on HN
Alternatives named
Purely Functional Clojure JVM guide
From 1 comment
Have you tried this one? https://purelyfunctional.tv/guide/clojure-jvm/ Looks like a very good and up-to-date guide to the JVM for Clojure developers.
brabel on HN
Klipse interactive Clojure playground
From 1 comment
To play with cljs online you want this one: http://app.klipse.tech/ Which is made by the author of book. The link was under https://clojurescript.org/community/resources.
Scarbutt on HN