ClojureBridge Curriculum

Friday: InstallFest

• Getting Set Up

Saturday: Workshop

• Have coffee/water/breakfast, mingle
• Welcome! Overview...
  • Background on ClojureBridge
  • What we hope you get out of ClojureBridge
  • Thank our sponsors!
  • Format for each module
    1. Present slides for each module
    2. Update the related code to our chat application
    3. Work through the module exercise in small groups
    4. Advanced: Go through related Community Docs sections
    5. Lightning talk
• Go around the room, everyone introduce yourselves
  • How did you hear about ClojureBridge?
  • Why is this important to you?
• Module 1: Introduction to Programming with Clojure
  • Updating our chat application: Set up your app
  • Exercise for Module 1
  • Advanced: community docs: comment, types, def, Easy Web Application by Compojure
• Module 2: More Simple Values
  • Updating our chat application: Say hello to yourself
  • Exercise for Module 2
  • Advanced: community docs: string, truthiness, Basic Web Application by Ring
• Module 3: Data Structures
  • Updating our chat application: Write some html with Hiccup
  • Exercise for Module 3
  • Advanced: community docs: vector, list, set, namespace, HTML generation by Hiccup
• Module 4: Functions
  • Updating our chat application: Add a form
  • Exercise for Module 4
  • Advanced: community docs: basics of function, map, reduce, SQL Database - Apache Derby
• Module 5: Flow Control
  • Updating our chat application: Add some flow control
  • Exercise for Module 5
  • Advanced: community docs: if, cond, case, let, destructuring, function with let/destructuring
• Module 6: More Data Structures
  • Updating our chat application: Maps
  • Exercise for Module 6
  • Advanced: community docs: map, lazy-seq
• Module 7: More Functions
  • Updating our chat application: Store and display messages
  • Exercise for Module 7
  • Advanced: community docs: anonymous function, higher-order function, filter, for, loop, recur, trampoline
• Module-8 (extra credit) Putting your application online with Heroku
  • Putting Your Application Online
• Next Steps: You are now part of the Clojure Community!
  • User group meetings: clojure.mn
  • IRC #clojure.mn
  • Related local events
  • More learning resources

Lightning Talks

• After Module 1 4clojure
• After Module 2 clojurekoans
• After Module 4 Women in Open Source Software
• After Module 5 Immutability
• After Module 6 Parallelism

License

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