Learn Clojure as a holiday project(edd.me)
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Learn Clojure as a holiday project
http://edd.me/busy-clojure
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Just a note. The distribution being created here is the Binomial distribution. It just so happens that because of the central limit theorem, you can approximate it with the Gaussian distribution. For a low number of samples (n<20), this approximation will degrade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution#Normal_ap...
I just read through this at work (Slow day before Holidays). Very nice. I've also been going through The Joy of Clojure as a beginner book to lisp and small projects like this are very helpful. I learn the same way. If something seems daunting or if something seems trivial, I am not as motivated. There is a good balance that I have to find.
The tutorial looks lovely but... if you have good a relationship with your family or have close friends, wouldn't it be better to spend time with them rather than learning Clojure these holidays? There will be plenty of time for Clojure the rest of the year, but this is a special occasion.
Thanks for this. It's hard to find good examples that are so thoroughly explained and aren't trivial.
This came out of me needing an excuse to write some Clojure, and wanting to model a simple coin-tossing game. What started as a guide to Clojure for busy programmers probably makes a right-sized holiday hacking project.
Thanks for the article Edd. I've been meaning to have a go at Clojure since I started playing with Lisp/Scheme.
(One side point, that background is a little hard to read against; it actually started to give me a headache... :)
(One side point, that background is a little hard to read against; it actually started to give me a headache... :)
Thanks Lio. Let me know what you think. Also, I got rid of the background. Seems my evil plan to hypnotize the population of HN might not actually work out.
This shade of grey is way better than the previous background to me. Thanks !
I'm just diving into clojure now and have finally gotten my vim environment set up with a working repl (war scars here for vim users trying to get going: http://naleid.com/blog/2011/12/19/getting-a-clojure-repl-in-...)
This is exactly the kind of next step I was looking for beyond the 4clojure and clojure koans stuff. I'll be working through it this weekend. Thanks!
This is exactly the kind of next step I was looking for beyond the 4clojure and clojure koans stuff. I'll be working through it this weekend. Thanks!
Sounds interesting, but... I think your site is down.
Working here. Try again? It's hosted on Tumblr.
Still boned. I'll try again later. I'm looking forward to it!