Voyaging Mind

It is pretty clear to me that Clojure is not going to be a language I will get good at in the space of a couple of weeks. Partly because I am taking a relaxed approach to it, sort of enjoying the journey you might say, and partly there is a reasonable amount to learn, not just the language but the tooling. So after reading through "The Joy of Clojure" I am sure I have not understood even half of it, a book to return in at some point in the future. The how to progress next question hit me. I could just start writing code, like the little text adventure I created. This would be immensely enjoyable but I would rapidly fall out of learn Clojure mindset to how can I make this game better and that is not somewhere I want to be at the moment. So I have decided to take a look at the book "Living Clojure". It is simpler than the previous book and presents a series of exercises to get you up to a reasonable level over the period of a number of weeks. Seems like a fun thing to

Yes it has been a long time and yes I have been pretty distracted and I have not been coding much. I am slowly getting the rhythm back. The little bit of coding I am doing using clojure. A long time ago I took a look at it bit but it never really pulled me in. Now the tool set looks a lot more mature. That does mean I have jumped back into the world of emacs. Yes other editors exist but I am trying to not explore all of them. My attitude at the moment is pretty laid back, I have no expectations of becoming a master at clojure or for that matter emacs. The plan is to just enjoy the coding and anything I learn is just a bonus. So far I have written a tiny text adventure and read a couple of books. Reading the books has given me a good overview but none of the sections really sunk in. Why the laid back attitude? Well apart from the usual Summer business I also was training for a black belt. So the past few months have been pretty intense. Now I would like a few months to decompress