Clojure/core Reading List: Rationale, tutorials, resources

I think the best programming language introdution book I read was the " C programming language book" by Ritchie and Kerningham. What made this book stick in my head was that almost very chapter had a bunch of non-trivial exercises at the end and solving them helped me "deeply" absorb those concepts.

There is a lot of material on Clojure on the web . I own the "Joy of Clojure" as well as "Clojure in Action". They are great for illustrating how great Clojure is ( and it is great no question) but they don't help in deeply absorbing the language as much as the C book did. I wish there were programming exercises based around keys concept of Clojure, much like the C book.

I would nominate Stuart's dependency mgmt blog entry for this page too:

http://stuartsierra.com/2011/06/01/dependency-management

I was surprised that 4Clojure wasn't mentioned. It's a great little site that poses Clojure problems in easily digestible chunks.

http://www.4clojure.com/

(not that I don't trust them, but why use URL shorteners, bit.ly?)