Clojure - from beginner to advanced

Description

In this course, you will :

• Clojure development
• Set up Clojure environment
• Basics of Clojure development
• Advanced Clojure topics
• Practical application development
• Concurrent programming in Clojure

Syllabus :

1. Introduction

• Freebies and updates
• What is Clojure and brief history
• Clojure installation on Windows
• Clojure installation on MacOS
• Clojure installation on Linux
• Leiningen - clojure project manager
• IDE installation
• REPL

 

2. Language basics

• Syntax, clojure expressions
• Global variables and function definition
• Primitive data types
• Basic data structures
• Immutability

 

3. Language structures

• Control structures (if, case, cond)
• Local scope variables
• Loops
• Exception handling
• Namespaces
• Functional programming basics
• Destructuring
• Threading macros
• Recursion
• Closures

 

4. Advanced language concepts

• Dynamic and lexical scope
• Read, eval, apply
• Macros
• OOP: Protocols
• OOP: Multimethods
• Transducers
• Concurrent programming

 

5. Ecosystem and useful libraries

• Java interoperability
• File I/O
• Dependencies in Leiningen project
• JSON processing
• HTTP client, server, routing
• HTML templating
• SQL databases: postgres
• NoSQL databases: mongo
• Testing in Leiningen project
• Go-like concurrency library

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