Re: Clojure talk tomorrow

[Scott Fraser <Scott.E.Fraser@gmail.com>]

Mike, have you considered putting your slides from the meeting online?

thanks,

-Scott

On Nov 10, 4:02 pm, "Mike DeLaurentis" <delauren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For the Clojure talk tomorrow, I plan on going through a few slides
> that talk about the language at a high level, but then spending most
> of the time actually going through some example code. We'll use the
> sample program to drive a more in-depth discussion about a few of the
> language's features, such as support for concurrency. I'm hoping this
> approach will help make the talk more engaging, and help people see
> how the language can be used to solve real-world problems.
>
> You might enjoy following along on a laptop and executing the examples
> against a REPL. So, feel free to bring a laptop, and I'll send out
> some of the code we'll be going through before the meeting.
>
> If you're going to bring a laptop and follow along, you'll definitely
> need either the clojure jar or source code. Both are available from
> clojure.org (see the "Download" and "SVN" links at the top right
> corner of the page). If you're a fan of Emacs, you could install
> clojure-mode fromhttp://github.com/jochu. Or, you can just access the
> REPL directly via the command-line. Either way, if you want to follow
> along, I ask that you try to get Clojure running before the meeting,
> so we don't spend too much time trying to set environments up. If you
> have trouble setting stuff up, shoot me an email...
>
> If you don't want to bring a laptop or take the time to set up
> Clojure, that's fine too. I hope the talk will be interesting either
> way...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike