Clojure

As previously mentioned, I am learning category theory, beginning with Lawvere's Conceptual Mathematics book. This is a very elementry book that assumes almost nothing as a background. However, it is still a math book, which requires doing some exercises. Since the book provides no answer to exercises, I decide to make my own and post them here as I did them. Hopefully someone will find them useful. Continue reading »

Finally done with all the 100 problems listed on 4clojure.com so far :-). When new problems appears there, I will probably do them when I have some time to kill, but I will not post my solutions here any more. If I found interesting programming exercises, I may submit to 4clojure as well. Continue reading »

For someone without previous Lisp experience, the hardest part of learning Clojure programming seems to be the functional way of doing things. It is like math, one really needs to do some exercises in order to master it. At this point, 4clojure.com seems to be the best place for getting such exercises. It has a lot of problems for new clojurians to solve. These problems ask one to fill in the blank __ so the given expressions are true. To give a little challenge, some clojure built-in functions are forbidden to use for some problems. New problems are added from time to time on the site, so it surely can keep me entertained for a while. Continue reading »

I recently started to learn clojure programming. It is an interesting experience. Ever since I learned computer programming almost 20 years ago, in Pascal, on a VAX minicomputer terminal, I have not experienced this newbie sensation with a computer language. The sense of excitement and novelty is high, and the eagerness to put the language to use is higher still. So for my new project at work, I am doing it with clojure.

This is a visual analytics project, and the visual part will be on the Web. It amazes me how much work has already been done for the Web using this 3 years old language. So it should be easy for me to get started. Here's what I have so far.

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