The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access

The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access(manning.com)

99 points by avparker 13 years ago | 45 comments

fogus 13 years ago |

Hi all, one of the authors here. If you'd like to buy the early access edition then Manning has a 50% off deal today with code dotd0314tw. You have to order it through their website, that can be accessed via http://www.joyofclojure.com/buy

even better apparently is the code joc2elaunch50 allowing discounts for a bunch of books

tom_b 13 years ago | |

Purchased as soon as I received the email from Manning.

fogus, eagerly anticipating the logic programming section. Skip everything else to draft that, of course after the Clojure/West miniKanren conf. Which I am unable to attend (crying softly in my cubicle).

Maybe at lambda jam you or David Nolen will do a workshop on logic programming. Who do I bribe to make this happen?

siavosh 13 years ago | |

Any additional special deals for folks who own the first edition? Maybe for just the diff ;)

orangethirty 13 years ago | |

May you provide some insight into the contents of the book?

lucian1900 13 years ago | |

Is the ebook version DRM-free from Manning? Their buy page isn't clear.

tomku 13 years ago | | |

It's DRM-free, but visibly tagged with your name and email address on each page like other Manning ebooks.

Edit: This applies to the PDF version, the ePub and Mobi just put your name in the metadata, I believe.

fogus 13 years ago | | |

As far as I understand the pre-release version is a regular PDF. I am unsure about the formats available when the book is complete, but I do not think that they were DRM'd in the first edition.

juskrey 13 years ago | | |

Yes, it is DRM-free, just uploaded to my kindle.

st3fan 13 years ago | |

What is new? I have the first edition .. what will you change?

jakubholynet 13 years ago | | |

Some of the new stuff is mentioned at http://www.joyofclojure.com/2nd - - ClojureScript - more on "thinking" techniques, f.ex. unification, logic programming, constraint solving, declarative programming - Data-orientation: "dive deeply into viewing applications (and even code itself) through a data-centric lens"

juskrey 13 years ago | |

apparently they have some automatic coupons, "dotd0314" worked for me, and they have it every day.. (no-brainer numbers)

fogus 13 years ago | | |

We realize that we're not about to get rich off of this book, so we'd prefer that the coupons disseminate far and wide. :-)

_pmf_ 13 years ago |

I bought the E-Book for the last edition via Manning. Paying works fine, but accessing content has been a really crappy experience.

The book itself had the particularly annoying section 13 that caters to certain fads (DSLs and Java bashing, pseudo-philosophical musings about functional programming). I hope this juvenile drivel will be left out in the new edition; if I want to read content-less feel-good articles, there is no shortage of free content.

I remember that the sections on namespaces and destructuring have been really nice.

krosaen 13 years ago |

Great to see this updated for 1.5. Aside from that and some treatment of clojurescript, are there other updates from the first edition that might push a 1st edition owner to buy this one too?

fogus 13 years ago | |

A couple topics that we plan to cover, besides the 1.5 additions and changes and ClojureScript, are logic programming and data-driven development. We talked a little about the latter in the 1st edition, but it'll be front and center in the 2nd.

krosaen 13 years ago | | |

You had me at 'logic programming' :)

aroemers 13 years ago |

More info on what will be new can be found at http://blog.fogus.me/2013/02/08/moar-joy/ and http://www.joyofclojure.com/2nd

avparker 13 years ago | |

Thanks aroemers. I didn't realise this had previously been announced. I've updated the title to indicate that the news is actually that the Early Access edition is now available for purchase.

c0mpute 13 years ago |

Anyone knows how this series compares to the also-recently-announced Clojure in Action - http://www.manning.com/rathore2/

I mean compare the two clojure books wrt v1.

tomku 13 years ago | |

Joy of Clojure is about understanding the philosophy of Clojure, and using the language's built-in abstractions in an idiomatic way. It's not really a "first book on Clojure" for someone that doesn't know the language at all, but if you know the basics you can use it to solidify your understanding.

Clojure in Action is more of a practical, get-shit-done book. It covers things like databases, web frameworks, TDD and message queues in the context of Clojure. It also has a brief introduction to the language itself and some coverage of functional programming idioms, but the focus is more strongly on real-world usage rather than deep understanding.

c0mpute 13 years ago | | |

Thank you, that is a helpful description.

So for a Clojure noob (like me) it might be better to start with Clojure in Action and then read Joy of Clojure.

runevault 13 years ago |

Just grabbed my copy of 2nd, already had a copy of the 1st edition which I loved, so excited to see the updates both in terms of changes for 1.5, the clojurescript stuff, and logic programming.

Happy times :)

trailfox 13 years ago |

If you're subscribed to manning daily deal email there's a 50% discount code for this book (and some scala books) that they seem to be sending today.

juskrey 13 years ago | |

Already sent?

trailfox 13 years ago | | |

Discount code of: joc2elaunch50

Works for:

  Scala in Depth 
  Scala in Action 
  Akka in Action 
  Clojure in Action, Second Edition 
  Functional Programming in Scala 
  Play for Scala 
  Play for Java 
  Lift in Action 
  DSLs in Action 
  The Well-Grounded Java Developer 
  Real World Functional Programming 
  F# Deep Dives 
  Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja 
  Third-Party JavaScript

avparker 13 years ago | | |

Yeah, it's today's "deal of the day", and you can also save on "Clojure in Action, Second Edition" and "Functional Programming in Scala". There's also a week-long coupon to celebrate the launch, and that includes a much larger list of books that you can save on, which is probably what trailfox is talking about.

dkersten 13 years ago |

Already have a print copy of the first edition, but ordered this too. Looking forward to the logic and data oriented programming content!

y3di 13 years ago |

Aw, I just got the old version a few weeks ago.

lani 13 years ago | |

ordered the JoC 1 on monday : )

rcb 13 years ago |

I purchased JOC 2e two days ago.. The 1st was such an excellent book. Thank you fogus, chouser, and Manning!

joshuacc 13 years ago |

Are mobi/epub versions available yet? From what I could tell, it's only the PDF version?

avparker 13 years ago | |

Normally the Manning books are PDF while the book is pre-release (MEAP), and then after publication the epub/mobi/pdf is released.

tomku 13 years ago | | |

Seems like they've had a recent push to do MEAPs in ePub/Mobi as well. Out of the 10 MEAPs I'm following at the moment (addict ;;), eight have full PDF/ePub/Mobi and two are only available as PDF.

miloshadzic 13 years ago | |

The MEAP is available as EPUB as well and looks good. I just loaded it up in Readmill.

juskrey 13 years ago | |

available

Scala in Depth Scala in Action Akka in Action Clojure in Action, Second Edition Functional Programming in Scala Play for Scala Play for Java Lift in Action DSLs in Action The Well-Grounded Java Developer Real World Functional Programming F# Deep Dives Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Third-Party JavaScript