7 Languages in 7 Workshops: Clojure

Our July workshop is the second in a series of themed workshops: 7 Languages in 7 Workshops.

Loosely based around Bruce Tate's book Seven Languages in Seven Weeks (Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seven-Languages-Weeks-Programming-Programmers/dp/193435659X/)), we'll be exploring Haskell, Clojure, Ruby, Io, Prolog, Erlang, and Scala.

In our July workshop, we'll introduce Clojure with no prior knowledge assumed. We'll go through what makes Clojure unique and the key features that give it power, solving some simple problems as we go along.

If we've got time, we'll try to do some interprocess communication between attendees!

The goal of the workshop is to introduce you to Clojure and show where it might fit in your toolbox.

We hope to have a web-based Clojure environment set up for you to use during the workshop, but having installed a copy of the java JDK (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html) and Leiningen (https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen) will help if things go wrong :)