Clojure 101: Interactive Introduction

Hello Everyone!

We are happy to announce our next meetup, where we will get to know a modern JVM-based language, Clojure!

Topic
Clojure is a modern, functional Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and offers a range of interesting and unique features that can be very appealing to Java developers and therefore to our community.

Instead of traversing through slides, we will jump directly into the REPL and start exploring the language, having that way an interactive introduction to the Clojure programming language.
This talk intends to cover language basics, data structure manipulation, functional programming idioms and interop with the host language.
All concepts will be presented with code examples open for discussion.

Kostas Georgiadis (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kongeor/ , https://github.com/kongeor) our speaker for this event, is a senior software engineer with 10+ years of experience about 6 of those are on Java and the 4 most recent ones are on Clojure. Also on his day to day tasks he also writes Javascript and Python.

Also, due to our community's 10th anniversary, we will have a quick reflection on past events and speakers for these 10 years!

Agenda
7:00 - 7:15 Arrival / Networking
7:15 - 7:30 SKG Java Meetup 10 Years Rewind
7:30 - 8:20 Clojure 101: Interactive Introduction
8:15 - 9:00 Pizza & Snacks by Chubb

Chubb (https://www.chubb.com) will be sponsoring our pizzas for the event! You can view the open roles and their requirements for Java Software Engineers and other disciplines here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/chubb-jobs/?currentJobId=3808235845&originalSubdomain=gr

Finally, we are pleased to share that gifts, such as free books from Oreilly and JetBrains licenses, will be distributed following a drawing at our upcoming event!

As always, the event is free of charge. Just bring your best mood and enjoy 🙂

See you all there!
Lefteris, Dimitris & Giorgos