rebel-readline

und in tutorials. Just makes it easier to follow the tutorials! * Use rebel-readline [2]. Just follow the readme!. It gives you a nice coloured command line REPL with all sorts of cool features, but you don't need to make use of all of them at once. Take your time! * Choose an editor with good integrations. Obvious choices: VSCode+Calva extension, IntelliJ+Cursive, or Emacs+Cider. The main thing about having a good integration is the instantaneous feedback of sending chunks of code to the REPL, although for a slow start you can do the same just copying and pasting code from the editor to the REPL! About books: I read 3 or 4 different ones... most books I read were pretty good, some of them are available online for free! Confidence comes from writing lots of code mostly, though, not just reading. I'm not proficient enough yet that I remember the APIs yet so books help to gimme a cohesive roadmap of things to learn. Suggested little "project": I also found this library [3] that is cool to play a bit with random things to produce some graphical output. It is a wrapper around Processing. Good luck! Caveat: there are many ways to do teh same thing. This comes from a focus on libraries over frameworks. Also, the whole JVM API is available to you so for a lot of things you are supposed to just use the Java APIs. Don't bother about wrappers or clojars for a start, just call Java from your clojure. Is fast, fun and easy! :-) Pick one way of doing things and do it for a while... even if it doesn't give you the "fullest of the performance" for any given task, it will be an OK vehicle for you to learn and get familiar with the ecosystem. Classical example: http servers. 0: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/clojure/clojure/1.10.1/ 1: https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started 2: https://github.com/bhauman/rebel-readline 3: http://quil.info/