Deepen and Diversify the Clojure Community with Jr Engineers
summary
A humanities-to-code story that claims Clojure’s simplicity and REPL-driven development let a newcomer move from self-study to a job at a 12-person startup, where the codebase is rewritten into Clojure/ClojureScript, a caching layer and websocket routing are implemented, and a circle-packing graph algorithm is optimized and taught in team workshops. Tools named include Figwheel live reload, Monger/Mongo and ClojureScript; conferences show 6% women attendance and argue for living‑wage apprenticeships to widen access.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:21Randall Munroe
- 1:16As a little girl
- 1:41Coding with Dad
- 2:26Fear of the World
- 2:53Intentional Communities
- 4:14Introduction to Functional Programming
- 5:23Melanie Mitchell
- 6:46Little Bird
- 7:31Ryan Spangler
- 9:39Ryans Code
- 10:38Ryans Algorithm
- 10:59Justin Smith
- 15:27Closure
- 18:57Any questions
- 19:39What have you brought from your closure background
- 23:28Asking better questions
- 24:53General advice for new programmers
- 26:28Giving feedback
- 27:48Documentation
- 29:16Humanities Education
- 29:48Why did you leave Clojure
- 30:53Rubber Duck Debugging
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