In this episode I talk with Colin Jones, software craftsman at 8th Light. We cover Colin’s work on the Clojure Koans, making the transition from Ruby to Clojure, how functional programming affects the way he does object oriented design now, and his venture into learning Haskell.

Colin on 8th Light

Colin’s blog posts at 8th Light

@trptcolin on Twitter

trptcolin on github.com

8th Light

Colin’s background on getting into programming

Clojure Koans

Learning Clojure by writing the Clojure Koans

Teaching as a way to learn

Colin’s blog post Clojure Libs and Namespaces

Colin’s blog post Quoting Without Confusion

Clojure Doc site

REPLy

nREPL

Leiningen

Possible use of nREPL to connect to a live running system

8th Light’s experience with Clojure

Pedestal

Webmachine

Liberator

Using Object-Oriented constructs in Functional languages, and vice-versa

Colin’s SOLID Clojure presentation

Speclj

clojure.test

Midje

Speclj works on ClojureScript as well

ClojureScript

Haskell

exercism.io

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good

The other book that was recommended to Colin: Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming

Deliberate Practice with feedback

Colin is writing a book on macros in Clojure from Pragmatic Press

On Lisp by Paul Graham

Let Over Lambda by Doug Hoyte

David Nolen (@swannodette on Twitter)

Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming

Michael Bernstein (@mrb_bk on Twitter)

Michael Fogus (@fogus on Twitter)

Out of the Tar Pit on CiteSeer

Apprenticeship at 8th Light

8th Light University on Friday afternoons

A giant Thank You to David Belcher for the logo design.