Clojure for Java Developers (English Edition) - Softcover

Díaz, Eduardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178528150X ISBN 13: 9781785281501

Verlag: Packt Publishing, 2016

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Key Features

• Write apps for the multithreaded world with Clojure's flavor of functional programming
• Discover Clojure's features and advantages and use them in your existing projects
• The book is designed so that you'll be able put to use your existing skills and software knowledge to become a more effective Clojure developer

Book Description

We have reached a point where machines are not getting much faster, software projects need to be delivered quickly, and high quality in software is more demanding as ever.

We need to explore new ways of writing software that helps achieve those goals. Clojure offers a new possibility of writing high quality, multi-core software faster than ever, without having to leave your current platform.

Clojure for Java developers aims at unleashing the true potential of the Clojure language to use it in your projects. The book begins with the installation and setup of the Clojure environment before moving on to explore the language in-depth. Get acquainted with its various features such as functional programming, concurrency, etc. with the help of example projects. Additionally, you will also, learn how the tooling works, and how it interacts with the Java environment.

By the end of this book, you will have a firm grip on Clojure and its features, and use them effectively to write more robust programs.

What you will learn

• Understand the tools for the Clojure world and how they relate to Java tools and standards (like Maven)
• Learn about immutable data structures, and what makes them feasible for everyday programming
• Write simple multi-core programs using Clojure's core concepts, like atoms, agents and refs
• Understand that in Clojure, code is data, and how to take advantage of that fact by generating and manipulating code with macros
• Learn how Clojure interacts with Java, how the class loaders work and how to use Clojure from Java or the other way around
• Discover a new, more flexible meaning of polymorphism and understand that OOP is not the only way to get it

About the Author

Eduardo Diaz is a developer with a strong background in the Java language. He has a passion for functional programming and new programming paradigms. His work includes full stack development, systems design, and high volume real time data processing.

He has worked on every technology related problem you can imagine, as a consultant solving anything related to Java, UNIX, C, or any other strange problem you might have had.

As a developer, he has been working for around 10 years on Java, Python, Scala, Clojure, in the media, bank, and primarily communications industries.

He is currently working at Grupo Expansion, a media company, where he helps design and implement a new content delivery platform aiming to empower content editors and encourage developers to find new ways to use data.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Clojure
2. Namespaces, Packages, and Tests
3. Interacting with Java
4. Collections and Functional Programming
5. Multimethods and Protocols
6. Concurrency
7. Macros in Clojure

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eduardo Díaz is a developer with a strong background in the Java language. He has a passion for functional programming and new programming paradigms. His work includes full stack development, systems design, and high-volume, real-time data processing.He has worked on every technology-related problem you can imagine, as a consultant solving anything related to Java, UNIX, C (or any other strange problem you might have had).As a developer, he has been working for around 10 years on Java, Python, Scala, and Clojure, in the media, bank, and primarily communications industries.He is currently working at Grupo Expansion, a media company, where he helps design and implement a new content delivery platform aiming to empower content editors and encourage developers to find new ways to use data.Shantanu Kumar is a software developer living in Bengaluru, India. He works with Concur Technologies as a principal engineer, building a next-generation stack in Clojure. He started learning computer programming when he was at school, and has dabbled in several programming languages and software technologies. Having used Java for a long time, he discovered Clojure early in 2009 and has been a fan of it ever since.When not busy with programming or reading up on technical stuff, he enjoys reading non-fiction and cycling around Bengaluru. Shantanu is an active participant in The Bangalore Clojure Users Group, and contributes to several open source Clojure projects on GitHub. He is also the author of the first edition of the book Clojure High Performance Programming, Packt Publishing.Akhil Wali is a software developer. He has been writing code as a hobbyist since 1997 and professionally since 2010. He completed his post graduation from Santa Clara University in 2010, and he graduated from Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2008. His areas of work include business intelligence systems, ERP systems, search engines, and document collaboration tools. He mostly works with Clojure, JavaScript, and C#. Apart from computers, his interests include soccer, guitar solos, and finding out more about the universe.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 178528150X
• ISBN 13: 9781785281501
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar