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She skips some of the exercises, not sure why.

I skipped a lot of the web-dev tutorials, because I found a lot of them were either out of date, or have since been replaced by better ones. Nothing against this chapter, but I prefer just to focus on the language itself.

I had to modify the library dependencies to get the tutorial working, but its understandable, given the current fluidity of Clojure libs.

I *think* I'm getting the hang of core.async.

Async is blowing my mind....

Nice intro to project management.

Protocols and records look neat, but their usage in these examples seem like over-kill. That said, I know she's trying to keep the problems simple, so I can focus on the actual language features.

Some intense stuff about multi-threaded stuff. Most of it good, but agents are a little confusing. I can't envision a usage-case for agents, other than what the author said.

Interesting stuff about mapping with multiple sequences, and a novel approach to mutability.