Getting Started for Beginners

You can Try Clojure without installing it on your machine; this site gives you a Clojure prompt ('REPL') in your browser, and a brief tutorial. Next steps:


Learn Clojure

• For a detailed introduction to Clojure, Mark Volkmann's Tutorial

• To practice, 4Clojure: Fill-in-the-blank exercises from beginning to advanced. Click on one of the 'title' links to do a problem
  
  

Run Clojure

• If you want an easily installable editor and REPL, try Clooj

• Install Leiningen and read the tutorial.
          You'll need Lein to build programs and run them at the command line, and also to use Clojure libraries.

• If you need a more powerful development environment (with a learning curve to match), try Emacs, the choice of many experienced Clojurians.
          If you want a standard IDE, there are plugins for Eclipse, Netbeans, and IntelliJ, among others.

• debugging with JSwat
  
  

Use Clojure

• Build websites with Noir; also check out Noir's collection of web programming tutorials

• Statistics and graphing: Incanter
  
  

References

• API documentation organized by functionality

• List of the libraries available, and choices for the web application stack
  
  

Other Options

• For a complete listing of Clojure tools, look here