Getting Clojure

A good intro to Clojure, but nothing more than that. There's nothing of value in the book for an experienced Clojure developer.

“Getting Clojure” has a slightly different structure than most intro Clojure books - doesn't focus so much on concurrency and offers only a minimal coverage of more complex features (e.g. dealing with state and macros), which is a good idea for an intro book IMO. Generally concurrent programming is barely covered here and I recall that older Clojure books made a lot of fuss about it. Lesson learned I guess - Russ had the opportunity to observe how Clojure's actually used in the wild and focus on what matters the most.

Russ's writing style is fluid, clear, fun and engaging. I loved his Ruby work in the past and I'm happy to see him in the Clojure realm these days. If you've read any of his Ruby books (e.g. “Eloquent Ruby”) you'll find lots of similarities with “Getting Clojure”. I can certainly recommend the book to anyone looking to learn Clojure!