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Foundations of Clojure

Rakhim Davletkaliyev

Explore the essence of Clojure. Learn about higher order functions, composition, immutable data structures, macros, iteration, abstractions and other fundamental aspects of Clojure, LISP and functional programming.

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This book is for programmers who want to learn the foundational concepts of Clojure and functional programming. Topics include:

  1. Functions and threading expressions.
  2. Lists, sequences, vectors, zipmap and merge
  3. Scoping.
  4. Destructuring.
  5. Control structures and their composition.
  6. State: atoms, swap!, reset!, refs and dosync.
  7. Macros and meta-programming.
  8. Namespaces.
  9. Polymorphism, Multimethods and Protocols.

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Rakhim Davletkaliyev

Staff Software Engineer at IQM Quantum Computers. Programming professionally since 2006. Building https://minifeed.net and https://exotext.com.

Homepage: https://rakhim.org

Contents

Table of Contents

    • Chapter 1. Functions
      • Calling Functions
      • Higher Order Functions and Function Composition
      • Creating Functions
      • Anonymous Functions
      • Multi-arity Functions
    • Chapter 2. Data types and structures
      • Data types overview
      • Lists
      • Lazy sequences
      • Vectors
      • Sets
      • Maps
      • Building with zipmap and merge
      • Exercises
      • Collection and Sequence abstractions
    • Chapter 3. Scope
      • Scope, symbols, values
      • Vars
      • Dynamic Scope
    • Chapter 4. Destructuring
      • Sequential destructuring
      • Exercises
      • Associative destructuring
      • Destructuring nested structures
      • Destructuring parameters; keyword arguments
    • Chapter 5. Control structures
      • Conditions: if, when
      • Conditions: case, cond
      • List comprehension: for
      • Equality, truthy, falsy, nil
    • Chapter 6. Shared state
      • Atoms
      • Deeper swap! and reset!
      • Refs and dosync
      • Exercises
      • Further reading
    • Chapter 7. Macros
      • Quoting
      • Unquoting
      • Creating macros
    • Chapter 8. Namespaces
      • Namespaces, interns
      • Require
      • Require and refer
    • Chapter 9. Polymorphism, Multimethods and Protocols
      • What is Polymorphism
      • Multimethods
      • Multimethods with maps
      • The Expression Problem
      • Protocols
      • New types with deftype
      • defrecord
    • Chapter 10. Conclusions
      • What is next

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