What is the best place to start learning Clojure?

Question

I want to learn Clojure, but I don't know where to start. Where should I?

Answer 1

Some possible options, depending on how you learn best:

• Getting Clojure (book) - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/getting-clojure/9781680506082/
• Clojure for the Brave and True (book, also free online, but ignore the Emacs stuff) - https://www.braveclojure.com/
• Clojure Camp (specifically targeting new developers, offers mentoring and mob programming exercises, and a lot more) - https://clojure.camp/
• Join the Clojurians Slack for real-time, interactive help from other developers: self-signup at http://clojurians.net (not https)
• https://clojure-doc.org has a broad range of tutorials aimed at beginners
• https://clojure.org is the official Clojure site and has a "learn Clojure" path https://clojure.org/guides/learn/clojure

I don't like video as a learning format, so I don't have any suggestions there.

Comments

I think I will go with Clojure for the Brave and True, and no, I won't ignore the Emacs stuff because Emacs happens to be my favorite CLI text editor alongside NeoVim.

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If Emacs is already your daily driver, you mostly won't need to read the Emacs stuff in Brave, except for getting CIDER running :)

Answer 2

The clojure.org Getting Started page suggests some good starting places:

https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started