Any suggestions for which Lisp variant to learn? [closed]

Question

I ultimately want to learn Clojure, but I've found learning resources for Clojure to be scarce for people of little experience...

I'm wondering if it would be beneficial to start with Scheme (read The Little Schemer and SICP) or some other Lisp variant.

My only other programming experience is with Java and Python (which is pretty minimal). I ultimately want to study Clojure in my off-time since I find it fascinating and my college classes use Java.

Answer 1

Stuart Halloway's book is an excellent resource if you're just starting out. There are couple new books in the works that are available for download in an early form (Joy of Clojure, Clojure in Action, etc.).

Also I highly recommend the mailing list as well as the irc channel. Especially the irc channel, there's a lot of helpful people there and questions are usually answered pretty quickly.

While learning Scheme is certainly helpful (now that I've played around with Clojure for a year) I would also say that's unnecessary for learning and having fun with Clojure.