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+# clojure-koans
+This repo logs my solutions for the popular Clojure Koans series and serves as a way to mark my progress in learning the basics of clojure.
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+There are comments in this repo that are marked with this convention: ```;; J - ```. These are simply notes and reminders that I have written to myself.