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Clojure for Beginners

Learn Clojure from the REPL up — atoms, refs and STM, agents, core.async channels, futures and promises, deps.edn workflows, dependencies, immutable data and functional patterns. 30 episodes.

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Concurrency Decision Guide — atom vs ref vs agent vs core.async

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Concurrency Decision Guide — atom vs ref vs agent vs core.async

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure core.async — Channels and Go Blocks (CSP Concurrency)

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure core.async — Channels and Go Blocks (CSP Concurrency)

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure future and promise — Simple Async with @deref and deliver

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure future and promise — Simple Async with @deref and deliver

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure agent — Asynchronous State with send, await, and Background Updates

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure agent — Asynchronous State with send, await, and Background Updates

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure ref and STM — Coordinated State with dosync and alter

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure ref and STM — Coordinated State with dosync and alter

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure atom — Independent State · swap!, reset!, deref

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure atom — Independent State · swap!, reset!, deref

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Aliases and deps.edn Workflows — :dev, :test, :run, and Stacking

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Aliases and deps.edn Workflows — :dev, :test, :run, and Stacking

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Adding a Dependency — cheshire, deps.edn, and Maven Coordinates

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Adding a Dependency — cheshire, deps.edn, and Maven Coordinates

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Testing with clojure.test — deftest, is, testing, from REPL to CI

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Testing with clojure.test — deftest, is, testing, from REPL to CI

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure REPL-Driven Development — The Inner Loop That Defines Clojure

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure REPL-Driven Development — The Inner Loop That Defines Clojure

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Namespaces & `require` — Organizing Code Across Files

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Namespaces & `require` — Organizing Code Across Files

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure `for`, `doseq` & List Comprehensions — Generate and Iterate with Clarity

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure `for`, `doseq` & List Comprehensions — Generate and Iterate with Clarity

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Transducers — Pipelines Without Intermediate Collections

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Transducers — Pipelines Without Intermediate Collections

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure comp, partial, juxt & complement — Composition & Partial

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure comp, partial, juxt & complement — Composition & Partial

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Recursion — loop and recur, Stack-Safe

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Recursion — loop and recur, Stack-Safe

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Threading Macros — thread-first and thread-last

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Threading Macros — thread-first and thread-last

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure map, filter, reduce — The Functional Toolkit

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure map, filter, reduce — The Functional Toolkit

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Destructuring — :keys, :or & :as

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Destructuring — :keys, :or & :as

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Lazy Sequences — Infinite Data, Zero Cost

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Lazy Sequences — Infinite Data, Zero Cost

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Seq Abstraction — One Interface for Every Collection

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Seq Abstraction — One Interface for Every Collection

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Sets — Unique Collections & Set Math

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Sets — Unique Collections & Set Math

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Maps — assoc, dissoc, update & get-in

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Maps — assoc, dissoc, update & get-in

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Lists — Prepend, First, Rest & Stacks

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Lists — Prepend, First, Rest & Stacks

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Vectors — Create, Access, Grow & Inspect

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Vectors — Create, Access, Grow & Inspect

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Clojure for Beginners: Your First Script — deps.edn & -main

Clojure for Beginners: Your First Script — deps.edn & -main

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Conditionals — if, when, cond & Truthiness

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Conditionals — if, when, cond & Truthiness

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Functions with defn — The One Form You Need

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure Functions with defn — The One Form You Need

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Clojure for Beginners: Clojure def vs let — Values Not Variables

Clojure for Beginners: Clojure def vs let — Values Not Variables

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Clojure for Beginners: S-Expressions & Syntax

Clojure for Beginners: S-Expressions & Syntax

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Clojure for Beginners: Hello REPL — Install & First Program

Clojure for Beginners: Hello REPL — Install & First Program

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