Re: Clojure talk tomorrow

["Mike DeLaurentis" <delaurentis@gmail.com>]

Sure, I'll put the slides up Monday. In the meantime, the code we went
through is available here:

http://github.com/mdelaurentis/clojure-demo/


On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Scott Fraser <Scott.E.Fraser@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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