Clojure Fundamentals

Overview/Description
Clojure - a dialect of Lisp - is a dynamic programming language that compiles to JVM bytecode. In this course, you'll learn the fundamentals of programming with Clojure including basic syntax and using Leiningen to build Clojure programs. You'll also learn about program flow and working with functions and namespaces.

Target Audience
Individuals with programming experience who wish to learn how to program using Clojure

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.5

Lesson Objectives

Clojure Fundamentals

• start the course
• recognize the basic features of Clojure
• install and use Leiningen to build Clojure programs
• recognize the basic language features of Clojure
• describe functions in Clojure
• use local bindings in Clojure
• use conditional expressions in Clojure
• use looping and recursion in Clojure
• use tail recursion in Clojure
• use loop in Clojure
• work with side effects in Clojure
• consume first class Clojure functions
• produce first class Clojure functions
• use partial to curry Clojure functions
• use comp to compose Clojure functions
• describe Clojure namespaces
• use namespace-qualified symbols and keywords in Clojure
• switch namespaces in Clojure
• load Clojure namespaces from a file or stream
• query Clojure namespaces
• manipulate Clojure namespaces
• make decisions involving fundamental programming concepts in a Clojure application