Thank you, that is a helpful description.
So for a Clojure noob (like me) it might be better to start with Clojure in Action and then read Joy of Clojure.
So for a Clojure noob (like me) it might be better to start with Clojure in Action and then read Joy of Clojure.
I started with Joy of Clojure and found it hard to wrap my head around - it's commonly recommended you read it as your second book on Clojure, and it quickly became apparent to me why :) I jumped over to Clojure Programming and things immediately started to click in a way they'd not with JoC; after a couple thousand more lines of code and a few tens of 4clojure problems, I reread fogus, et al's work and had a much better time of it.