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0 pointsxiaoma8y ago0 comments

I like small books that build progressively more complex projects (Dave Thomas's Elixir book was good that way, Realm of Racket was my favorite). Short video tutorials are nice as a supplement are nice, too. Daily Drip's elm videos were fantastic.

The #1 thing I'm usually looking for is something that eliminates any time-wasting hassles related to getting set up, and all the major language features in some set of working examples.

After that, I usually write little command line apps, play with graphics a bit and convert some simple games into the language.

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VexorLoophole8y ago

Not ClojureScript but Clojure: I really liked www.braveclojure.com. Maybe not technical enough for the most folks in here, but it was a great starter since you jump right into and solve some problems. Still it was not too newbie focused (Write a program which prints Hello World and calculates the sum out of two numbers). Sadly i wasn't able to stick with clojure since i cant wrap my head around jvm and clojure always felt like something which is fun but will not help me in the future job market.

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