Practical learning path

[practicalli-johnny]

Each day could be as little as 2 hours or up to a full day, depending on how much timely advice you have (and decide to take

Day 1 tooling

• establish clojure editor and suitable tooling (lsp, structured editing)
• complete simple challenges to become familiar with Clojure syntax
• learn REPL driven development
• learn essential clojure syntax

Day 2 thinking in Clojure

• complete several challenges to learn important function groups in clojure core
• Lean important functions from clojure core (and clojuredocs lookup, clojure cheetsheet)
• Increase awareness of functional families

Day 3: Modeling data

• complete challenges with a focus on modeling data
• learn about sequences (lazy) and vectors|hash-maps|sets (eager)
• learn the benefits & constraints of each collection type
• learn to efficiently access large data sets lazily

Day 4: Clojure stacks

• learn about the common apps and services Clojure is used for
• learn about common libraries
• build an api web service in Clojure
• or build a SPA in ClojureScript

Day 5: Practice and reflect what was learned

• consider what you want to build as complete project in Clojure or ClojuteScript