Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Environment Setup
Chapter 1: Building, Running, and the REPL
Chapter 2: How to Use Emacs, an Excellent Clojure Editor
Part II: Language Fundamentals
Chapter 3: Do Things: A Clojure Language Crash Course
Chapter 4: Core Functions in Depth
Chapter 5: Functional Programming
Chapter 6: Organizing Your Project: a Librarian's Tale
Chapter 7: Clojure Alchemy: Reading, Evaluation, and Macros
Chapter 8: Writing Macros
Part III: Advanced Topics
Chapter 9: Concurrent and Parallel Programming
Chapter 10: Clojure Metaphysics: Atoms, Refs, Vars, and Cuddle Zombies
Chapter 11: Master Concurrent Processes with core.async
Chapter 12: Interacting with Java
Chapter 13: Create and Extend Abstractions with Multimethods, Protocols, and Records
Appendix A: Building and Developing with Leiningen
Appendix B: Boot, the Fancy Clojure Build Framework

About the Author

Daniel Higginbotham has been a professional programmer for eleven years, half of that at McKinsey & Company, where he used Clojure to build mobile and web applications. He has also contributed to the curriculum for ClojureBridge, an organization that offers free, beginner-friendly Clojure workshops for women. Daniel blogs about programming and life at http-//www.flyingmachinestudios.com, and can be found on Twitter, @nonrecursive. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and four cats.