Show HN: My Interactive ClojureScript book

My goal in writing this book was to give an introduction to new programmers, with functional style as the default and without reference to prior knowledge of an imperative language I wanted an interactive book where readers could try things out. Since ClojureScript is a good vehicle for functional programming and is self-hosted, it seemed to be a good choice.

There are a lack of resources out there for things like this. Especially with functional programming. This is very well done explaining the fundamentals of FP along with having people actually write code that ends up showing them something. Too many approaches go one way or the other.<p>Most FP stuff these days is trying to convert imperative programming users with corollaries to it. Actually new programmers do not have as much of a problem grasping FP as people think. The Clojure Bridge people have said as much in their experience training beginners.

Very cool. I&#x27;m happy you&#x27;re doing this. Greetings from #clojurewest by the way! Yo, I have not gone through all the pages yet, but I&#x27;m hoping you jump to map&#x2F;filter&#x2F;reduce and show how they are the intelligent and amazing alternative (replacement?) to for-loops and the like. A non-obvious bit of knowledge that is vital to FP.

I was just trying to figure out how to get started with ClojureScript the other day. This looks fantastic—particularly Appendix C (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;langintro.com&#x2F;cljsbook&#x2F;appendix_c.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;langintro.com&#x2F;cljsbook&#x2F;appendix_c.html</a>)

This is great work! I prolong learning ClojureScript for too long now - comes to the right time!

That is really beautifully done, good job!