The Newbie’s Guide to Learning Clojure

Well, the site won't load for me, but so long as we're on the topic of clojure newbie stuff, I just put together a simple project on github to demonstrate lazy-evaluation for those new to clojure by visualizing elementary cellular automata. I tried to annotate the source quite heavily to make it clear what's going on.<p>It can be found here: <a href="https://github.com/andrewvc/clj-automata" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/andrewvc/clj-automata</a>

Sorry for the site loading so slow. I submitted this a week ago and thought it got ignored into Hacker News oblivion. Back then, I added a cache plugin, but I guess that's not enough.<p>I woke up this morning surprised to see it's on the front page a.t.m. I'm going to troublehshoot right now.<p>I also have the dirt-cheap lowest VPS option on Rackspace -- is that the problem? If anybody has immediate ideas on how to make my server not be so slow, pass them along (and thanks for reading!)

<a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&#38;gl=US&#38;nomo=1&#38;biw=800&#38;bih=442&#38;q=cache:f9cX8Bnzy6UJ:http://www.elangocheran.com/blog/2012/03/the-newbies-guide-learning-clojure/+the-newbies-guide-learning-clojure" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&#38;gl=US...</a><p>I was having trouble getting reception, here is the Google cache if others are in a similar situation.

I would also add that a newbie should check out clojure-koans (<a href="https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans#readme" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans#readme</a>) and try to solve some of the Project Euler problems (<a href="http://projecteuler.net/problems" rel="nofollow">http://projecteuler.net/problems</a>). Both of these have been great resources for me to get the basics of the language.