Professional Clojure

by Michael Gaare Justin Jeremy Anderson, Michael Gaare, Justin Holgu¡n

Paperback International Edition … Same contents as in the US edition at Low Cost !!

264 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Anson MacKeracher]

Not a perfect book, and too expensive for what you get; however, this was a pragmatic and helpful introduction to Clojure and ClojureScript.

Good things about the book:
- Good, simple, overview of testing
- Great overview of ClojureScript tooling (needs updating for shadow-cljs)
- Read this from cover to cover and you'll be ready to build Clojure web apps, actually!
- The Datomic chapter is great. It's better than the official Datomic documentation as an introduction to the database and to Datalog

Problems with the book:
- It's expensive for what it is, this is text book level prices for what's ultimately a light overview of Clojure
- A few times they use the word "memorization" when they mean "memoization" early on in the book
- Over-emphasis on functional programming concepts at the start of the book, which is typical of Clojure literature. We get it already.
- 100% focus on web applications. I would have liked an exploration of scientific computing.
- Over-emphasis on Datomic. We need some non-trivial SQL examples and patterns as well

[Tory S. Anderson]

A nice introduction to the capacities of the language for practices like TDD, interactive development, and some recommended libraries. Not as inspiring as some Clojure books, but probably a good resource to revisit.

[Wanderson Ferreira]

The book is overral very good at explaining some best practices. However, the chapter about the Datomic is a must-read if you are interested in the subject. Very detailed view and explanation about the concepts.

[Jamal Burgess]

I really wish I'd picked this book up after reading Living Clojure before the other books. This book does a great job as far as giving you gems related to tooling as well as getting a running start with dealing with web services.