In my personal experience, there's a great way for beginners of clojure to get up and running. It's called labrepl, by Stuart Halloway:

http://github.com/relevance/labrepl

It's so good that I think the clojure website should be linking to it. Here's the summary from the above link:

Labrepl is an environment for exploring the Clojure language. It includes:

- a web application that presents a set of lab exercises with step-by-step instructions

- an interactive repl for working with the lab exercises

- solutions with passing tests

- up-to-date versions of Clojure, contrib, incanter, compojure and a bunch of other libraries to explore

See instructions below for getting started with NetBeans/Enclojure, Eclipse/Counterclockwise, Maven, Mac/Linux command line, Windows command line, IDEA/La Clojure, and Emacs.