Getting Clojure

How Is This Book Organized?

Generally we’re going to start small and work toward the bigger ideas:

• The first chapter is a quick this is what Clojure code looks like and how you make it go.

• Next we look at Clojure’s pair of sequential data structures: the list and the vector. Then we move on to maps, a data structure that lets you associate a key with a value. Along the way we’ll run into yet another data type, the keyword, which is like a string with an attitude; and we’ll explore sets, which are like maps without the values.

• Rounding out the fundamentals of Clojure we take a long look at Clojure’s riff on if statements and Boolean logic.

• With the very basics out of the way we move on to a couple of chapters about functions. We discover just ...