Clojure Workshop

Workshop Curriculum is borrowed from https://github.com/inclojure-org/organization/blob/master/workshop/curriculum.md

(Note: You'll need to bring your own laptop)

Clojure Basics

• Writing simple expressions; prefix notation; introduce the idea of forms/s-expressions
• Primitives: numbers, keywords, strings, booleans, nil
• Collection literals: lists, vectors, maps, sets
• Name things using def
• The idea of 'var's - and the idea of interning, namespaces and bindings

• And why 'def' is to be used with care, and at the top level (conventionally)

• Define basic functions with defn
• conditionals with if; truthiness and falsiness
• Bindings with let
• Collections: vectors, maps, sets. Introduce the ideas of immutability and persistent data structures
• Destructuring with let

### Working with functions

• Defining and calling functions
• Multi-arity functions
• varargs
• Destructuring
• pre/post conditions
• operating on functions: partial, comp, juxt
• anonymous functions and closures
• higher-order functions: map, filter, reduce

### Project Management

• namespaces and organising clojure code
• introduce leiningen
• setting up a project with lein new
• adding a dependency using lein, and requiring it in a namespace