Fast Track to Clojure - 30th Nov - 1st Dec 2017

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Malcolm Sparks (above) and Jon Pither (below)

Want to learn how to rapidly get up-to-speed with Clojure for solving real-world problems?

Clojure is a pragmatic language that offers a simpler approach; this course offers the fastest route to proficiency with this young and exciting JVM language. (https://skillsmatter.com/courses/479-fast-track-to-clojure?tc=f89dec)

The course will teach you the fundamentals of Clojure, through exercises based on some of the real-world problems that Clojure excels at tackling. The course is a full immersion to the Clojure philosophy, it will be an intensive two days!

Learn how to:

• Build up elegant programs from the building blocks provided by Clojure's core function library

• Think about and approach problems from a functional programming mindset

• Utillize existing Java APIs from your Clojure programs

• Write programs that utilize multiple threads without the risk of deadlocks and race-conditions

Check out the workshop here (https://skillsmatter.com/courses/479-fast-track-to-clojure?tc=f89dec)and the full course program here (https://skillsmatter.com/courses/479-fast-track-to-clojure?tc=f89dec#programme)

About Jon Pither and Malcolm Sparks :

Jon Pither (https://skillsmatter.com/legacy_profile/malcolm-sparks-jon-pither?tc=192c16)has led development of large Clojure projects at an Investment Bank, an online newspaper website, a major property portal, and is now working on various other Clojure projects. Jon is a co-founder of JUXT, a consultancy specialising in using Clojure.

Malcolm Sparks (https://skillsmatter.com/members/malcolmsparks?tc=192c16)has been writing Clojure since 2009, has led Clojure teams and been involved in many successful Clojure projects. He is an experienced Clojure trainer and has written numerous open-source libraries including bidi and yada. He is also the founder of JUXT, a consulting and software development firm that uses Clojure exclusively.