feat: Clojure fundamentals video series

A complete video series covering the fundamentals of Clojure, REPL Driven Development and the Clojure CLI tool.

The series will start at installing the Clojure CLI, understanding dependencies and creating projects.

The series continues with appreciation of the Clojure standard library (https://clojure.github.io/clojure/) by completing a series of challenges that explore the use of common functions.

Each challenge will use the REPL to test out different design options and create test and source code from REPL experiments.

All challenges will be supported by a detailed code design journal and example solutions.

Common Clojure Idioms will be explained and demonstrated throughout the series.

The series will be editor agnostic, although will use common tools such as Clojure CLI, Clojure LSP (clj-kondo) and a Clojure aware editor (connected REPL).

Although out of scope of this Clojurists Together project application, supporting video content for Emacs & Neovim editors will be created (or updated), once sufficient video content for the Clojure series is published.

Funding

Applied for the $9,000 funding from Clojurist Together on Sunday 15th March 2026.

Rationale

A practical guide to learning Clojure or helping teach Clojure to others, supporting the content already published at https://practical.li/clojure and Clojure.org

Existing Clojure developers can use the material to guide other people in there team or organisation to use Clojure

Those new to Clojure can quickly build a solid foundation in writing Clojure code and making the most from REPL Driven Development workflow.

The Practicalli Live Coding videos are from 2018-2019 and some of the tooling is outdated. As these videos are live and unscripted, then they are not as professional or of sufficiently high quality to demonstrate the joy of Clojure, especially for those new to the language.

Video Transcripts

• https://github.com/practicalli/clojure/issues/92
• https://github.com/practicalli/clojure/issues/39
• https://github.com/practicalli/clojure/issues/472