Teaching Clojure
summary
Extension course runs as a 30-hour, 18-week course that starts with functional concepts in JavaScript then moves to Clojure, teaching REPL-driven dev and project structure. Enrollment shows demand and dropoff: 51 registered → 22 enrolled → 16 after month → 9 finished. Tools and libraries used are Leiningen, REPL, Ring/Compojure, VS Code and rainbow-parens; students build small web apps in groups, most say JavaScript made concepts easier and 62% rate the course above expectations.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 12:38Exercises
- 17:17Results
- 21:14Survey
- 25:11Simple vs Complex
- 26:39Closure
- 26:52parentheses
- 27:53pros of Clojure
- 29:36automated tests
- 30:46transform
- 31:51parenthesis
- 32:31functions
- 33:54deff
- 35:01macro
- 35:31defin
- 36:25References
- 36:39Libraries
- 37:31Course Material
- 39:29Not very welcoming
- 39:46Things evolve
- 40:29Next week
