Coding Challenges for Clojure¶

Coding challenges are an excellent way to start learning a new language. The challenges allow you to focus on the language and not be concerned about the more general engineering aspects of software development.

Challenges are there to explore a language and practice your understanding of how to assemble working code.

Try different approaches to solving each challenges to broaden your learning.

Exercism.io and 4Ever-Clojure are highly recommended starting point for learning Clojure.

Practicalli Challenges¶

Challenge that can be solved in a few hours or less. Use a Clojure REPL connected editor to help solve these challenges.

• Simple Projects
• TDD Code Kata

Approach to solving challenges¶

Take a few minutes to digest the description of the challenge and make notes.

Identify the simplest possible thing to do, solving the problem in many small pieces which encourages experimentation

• experiment, write code and evaluate to see what it does (optionally create a comment with the result)
• use a rich comment (comment ,,,) to capture multiple ideas and designs, even failed experiments can be useful (separates experiments from working code)
• continually evaluate code as expressions are written, to ensure their behaviour is understood (try different argument values for functions)
• try different shapes of data
• transform data shapes to keep function definitions simpler

Once there is a working solution, refactor or try different approaches and evaluate the merit of alternative solutions

Challenge websites¶

A local Clojure development environment supports solving challenges