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Curriculum for the ClojureBridge workshop series.

ClojureBridge Curriculum

Setup

• get breakfast (bagels, fruit, pastries)

General Module Format

1. Present the module's slides
2. Add the related code to our web application
3. Work through the module
4. Bonus: Go through related Community Docs sections
5. Lightening talk

Install-fest

• Getting Set Up

Outline

• Have coffee/water/breakfast, mingle
• Go around the room, everyone introduce yourselves
  • How did you hear about this?
  • why are you here?
  • why is this important to you?
• Introduction to Programming with Clojure (slides, chat, walk-through, lightening talk)
  • Advanced: community docs: comment, types, def, Easy Web Application by Compojure
• More Simple Values (slides, chat, walk-through, lightening talk)
  • Advanced: community docs: string, truthiness, Basic Web Application by Ring
• Data Structures (slides, chat, walk-through, lightening talk)
  • Advanced: community docs: vector, list, set, namespace, HTML generation by Hiccup
• Functions (slides, chat, walk-through, lightening talk)
  • Advanced: community docs: basics of function, map, reduce, SQL Database - Apache Derby
• Flow Control (slides, chat 1, chat 2, walk-through, lightening talk)
  • Advanced: community docs: if, cond, case, let, destructuring, function with let/destructuring
• More Data Structures (slides, chat 1, chat 2, walk-through, lightening talk: Clojure and immutability - Ted)
  • Advanced: community docs: map, lazy-seq
• More Functions (slides, chat 1, chat 2, walk-through, lightening talk: Parallelism in Clojure - Nic McPhee)
  • Advanced: community docs: anonymous function, higher-order function, filter, for, loop, recur, trampoline

Global Growth App

• Making Your First Program (slides)
• Making Your Own Web Application (slides)
• Putting Your Application Online

Lightning talk ideas

• Clojure Koans - http://clojurekoans.com/ - Ryan
• About our sponsors
  • LispCast
  • Brick Alloy
  • Code42
  • DevJam
• http://4clojure.com - Brian
• About Open Source - Tom Marble
  • Background on Open Source
  • Gnome Outreach Program for Women
• Minnesota Clojure User Group - http://clojure.mn
• Intro to IRC
• ClojureScript Koans - http://clojurescriptkoans.com/

Other learning resources

• Example Clojure app on Heroku - https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/clojure-web-application
• Recommended books:
  • 1st: Clojure Programming (Emerick, Carper, Grand)
  • 2nd: The Joy of Clojure (Fogus)
• Clojure Cookbook - https://github.com/clojure-cookbook/clojure-cookbook
• videos
  • Are we there yet - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey
  • Simple made Easy - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
  • others?

License

ClojureBridge Curriculum by ClojureBridge is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.