What we’re about
An open and friendly community that supports the adoption and practice of Clojure in any of its forms.
Clojure is a great way to learn functional programming thanks to a small and well-crafted syntax and focus on simplicity. Clojure is a powerful, productive and fun language, based on LISP and hosted on Java, JavaScript, Microsoft CLR, GraalVM, and Golang.
London Clojurians is a very active community with several events per month, including technical talks, coding dojo's, hackdays and a yearly conference. We hope you will join us and increase your knowledge and appreciation of Clojure and add your own experiences to our community.
If you would like to propose a talk please fill out the following form: https://bit.ly/ldnclj and one of the organisers will be in touch with you.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- From data to insights: Clojure for data deep dive (by Kira McLean)Link visible for attendees
THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT
[Connection details will be shared 1h before the start time]
The London Clojurians are happy to present:
Title: From data to insights: Clojure for data deep dive
Speaker: Kira McLean
Time: 2024-04-30 @ 18:30 (London time)
Local time: click here for local timeKira McLean (https://github.com/kiramclean/) will be presenting:
"From data to insights: Clojure for data deep dive"In this session, participants will dive into the lesser-known corners of Clojure's data ecosystem. Learn how to extract meaningful insights from example datasets, uncovering the versatility of libraries like tablecloth, tech.ml.dataset, and fastmath to confidently tackle realistic and complex data challenges. Participants will leave equipped with the tools and techniques to effectively leverage Clojure's robust data science toolkit for insightful real-world data exploration and analysis.
Kira has been writing software since 2015, focusing on Clojure for the last 4 years. With a desire to pave the way for Clojure's broader recognition and adoption in the data science community, she's actively developing tools and guides aimed at showcasing the strengths of Clojure's data science toolkit. Her efforts are driven by a vision to broaden Clojure's adoption in the data world by improving the usability and effectiveness it's core libraries. An advocate for Clojure's potential in the world of data science, she's spending this year working exclusively on open source contributions to support and grow the Clojure data science ecosystem, supported by Clojurists Together and other generous sponsors.
If you missed this event, you can watch the recording on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@LondonClojurians
(The recording will be uploaded a couple of days after the event.)Please, consider supporting the London Clojurians with a small donation:
https://opencollective.com/london-clojurians/Your contributions will enable the sustainability of the London Clojurians community and support our varied set of online and in-person events:
- ClojureBridge London: supports under-represented groups discover Clojure
- re:Clojure: our free to attend annual community conference
- monthly meetup events with speakers from all over the world
- subscription and admin costs such as domain name & StreamYard subscription
Thank you to our sponsors:
- https://juxt.pro/
- https://flexiana.com/
- And many individual sponsors
- London Clojure Dojo at uSwitchuSwitch, London
uSwitch is located on the first floor of the ZPG building at 5 Copper Row, London, SE1 2LH, London (Click on the map for directions)
What 3 words location: https://what3words.com/puts.sudden.else
The Clojure dojo is a collaborative way to learn Clojure/ClojureScript through practice. The aim is to learn a little more than before you started. This event is for those new to coding through to more experienced developers.
We organise into small groups (2-4) people and write code to solve challenges great and small, chosen by those at the event.
We aim to ensure someone in your group has some Clojure experience, so you shouldn't feel lost (well no more than all developers do when Stack Overflow is broken).
Example challenges for the coding dojo are listed on this website: http://www.londonclojurians.org/code-dojo/
Various past exercises have been loaded to
https://github.com/ldnclj# Approximate schedule:
18:40 Doors open and start collecting suggestions
18.45 Pizza should have arrived
19:00 Quick intros and vote on suggestions
19:15 Break out into groups and start practising
20:45 Gather together for a quick show and tell# What should I bring?
We organise into small groups, so if you have a laptop with a working Clojure environment please bring it along (there are lots of online Clojure environments, so you can just use your browser too).
# How do I get in to the building?
At the glass doors press the buzzer to inform the security guard you are here. Say you are here for the event on the first floor.
Is there way to talk with the Clojure community?
Why yes. The Clojurians Slack channel is full of friendly people who love to try and help. People based in London are often in the #clojure-uk channel. Sign up for a free account to the Clojurians Slack community via http://clojurians.net/
What is Clojure?
Clojure is a JVM language that has syntactically similarities to Lisp, full integration with Java and its libraries and focuses on providing a solution to the issue of single machine concurrency.
Its small core makes it surprisingly easy for Java developers to pick up and it provides a powerful set of concurrency strategies and data structures designed to make immutable data easy to work with. If you went to Rich Hickey’s LJC talk about creating Clojure you’ll already know this, if not it’s well worth watching the Rich Hickey “Clojure for Java Programmers” video or Stuart Halloway “Radical Simplicity” video .
- Programming with Linear Algebra: Hello World (by Dragan Djuric)Needs location
THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT
[Connection details will be shared 1h before the start time]
The London Clojurians are happy to present:
Title: Programming with Linear Algebra: Hello World
Speaker: Dragan Djuric
Time: 2024-05-14 @ 18:30 (London time)
Local time: click here for local timeDragan Djuric (https://dragan.rocks/) will be presenting:
"Programming with Linear Algebra: Hello World"Kick-starting the understanding of an unfamiliar topic might be the steepest point in any programming journey. Following the recent AI boom, you might be hearing about matrices and tensors left and right, you probably even know some basics from your math education, but you simply can't see how to use that in daily programming, in tasks that are not straight out of sci-fi. You might even have tried some software libraries, but haven't progressed beyond using them as fancy arrays. Here, we'll help you take that first step right away, and - if you take it - show you a path that can lead you quite further.
Dragan has been using Clojure for 15 years for fun and profit, and has been teaching programming and AI at university for even longer. He loves leaning new topics, and finding a way how to make them work in practice. Loves teaching even more. The author of a few nice Clojure libraries (https://github.com/uncomplicate) and a fer Clojure books (https://aiprobook.com).
If you missed this event, you can watch the recording on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@LondonClojurians
(The recording will be uploaded a couple of days after the event.)Please, consider supporting the London Clojurians with a small donation:
https://opencollective.com/london-clojurians/Your contributions will enable the sustainability of the London Clojurians community and support our varied set of online and in-person events:
- ClojureBridge London: supports under-represented groups discover Clojure
- re:Clojure: our free to attend annual community conference
- monthly meetup events with speakers from all over the world
- subscription and admin costs such as domain name & StreamYard subscription
Thank you to our sponsors:
- https://juxt.pro/
- https://flexiana.com/
- And many individual sponsors
