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You can <a href="http://try-clojure.org/">Try Clojure</a> without <a href="http://clojure.org/getting_started">installing</a> it on your machine; this site gives you a Clojure prompt ('REPL') in your browser, and a brief tutorialYou can also try ClojureScript at <a href="http://himera.herokuapp.com/">Himera</a>. Next steps: Learn Clojure<ul><li>For a detailed introduction to Clojure, <a href="http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html">Mark Volkmann's Tutorial</a></li></ul><ul><li><a href="http://clojure-doc.org/">Clojure Documentation Site (CDS)</a> is a community-driven Clojure docs and tutorials site</li><li>To practice, <a href="http://4clojure.com/problems">4Clojure</a>: Fill-in-the-blank exercises from beginning to advanced. Click on one of the 'title' links to do a problem</li></ul>Run Clojure<ul><li>If you want an easily installable editor and REPL, try <a href="http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/getting+started+with+Clooj">Clooj</a></li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen#readme">Install Leiningen</a> and read the <a href="https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/stable/doc/TUTORIAL.md#readme">tutorial</a>.         You'll need Lein to build programs and run them at the command line, and also to use Clojure libraries.</li></ul><ul><li>If you need a more powerful development environment (with a learning curve to match), try <a href="http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Getting+Started+with+Emacs">Emacs</a>, the choice of many experienced Clojurians.</li><li>If you want a standard IDE, there are plugins for <a href="http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Getting+Started+with+Eclipse+and+Counterclockwise">Eclipse</a> ( named <a href="http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Getting+Started+with+Eclipse+and+Counterclockwise">CounterClockWise</a> ) and <a href="http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Getting+Started+with+La+Clojure+and+IntelliJ+IDEA">IntelliJ</a> ( named <a href="http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Getting+Started+with+La+Clojure+and+IntelliJ+IDEA">LaClojure</a> ), among others.</li></ul><ul><li><a href="/display/doc/Debugging" data-linked-resource-id="2424930" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Debugging" data-base-url="http://dev.clojure.org">debugging</a> with JSwat</li></ul><ul><li>If you want a hosting platform, CloudBees has a quick start for <a href="https://github.com/CloudBees-community/clojure-clickstart">build and deployment</a> of Clojure applications.</li></ul>Use Clojure<ul><li>Build websites with <a href="http://www.webnoir.org/">Noir</a>; also check out Noir's collection of web programming <a href="http://www.webnoir.org/tutorials">tutorials</a></li><li>Check out <a href="http://clojurescriptone.com/">ClojureScript One</a> to get started using ClojureScript client-side; you may also want to look at <a href="https://github.com/ckirkendall/enfocus">Enfocus</a> and <a href="https://github.com/ibdknox/fetch">fetch</a></li><li>You can create desktop software with <a href="https://github.com/daveray/seesaw">Seesaw</a></li><li>Statistics and graphing: <a href="http://incanter.org/">Incanter</a></li><li>Music synthesis: <a href="http://overtone.github.com/">Overtone</a></li><li>Logic programming with <a href="https://github.com/clojure/core.logic">core.logic</a> (tutorials <a href="https://github.com/swannodette/logic-tutorial">here</a> and <a href="https://github.com/frenchy64/Logic-Starter/wiki">here</a> )</li></ul>References<ul><li><a href="http://clojuredocs.org/quickref/Clojure%20Core">API documentation</a> organized by functionality</li></ul><ul><li>List of the <a href="http://clojure-libraries.appspot.com/">libraries</a> available (also see <a href="http://clojuresphere.herokuapp.com/">Clojuresphere</a>)</li></ul>Other Options<ul><li>For a complete listing of Clojure tools, look <a href="/display/doc/Clojure+Tools" data-linked-resource-id="3702844" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Clojure Tools" data-base-url="http://dev.clojure.org">here</a></li></ul><ul><li>Getting Started is community-maintained.  If you are a member, feel free to update or add (tested, correct) instructions to any of these pages. If you are not a member feel free to send suggestions (or edits in HTML or markdown) to Chris Redinger (Email chris at thinkrelevance.com).</li></ul>