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by cutler 439 days ago
Watch Rich Hickey's early Clojure videos and be blown away.
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Got any specific suggestion?
"Simple Made Easy" is pretty popular, there is a transcription with slides:

https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...

I like "Clojure, Made Simple" even more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=028LZLUB24s

Someone helpfully pulled out this chunk, which is a good illustration of why data is better than functions, a key driver of Clojure's design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEQfqNYNAc

It's tangentially relevant, but I've enjoyed this one, about hammock driven programming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc