Land of Lisp (2010)

Re:Land of Lisp (2010) by joe8756438 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:45PM (#29858477)

This book is probably the most fun I have had with a programming book. I remember going through most of it the first day I cracked it open.

Curious if anyone knows other books that take a similar approach: fun but not dumbed down.

I tried a few from nostarch, in general I love their books, but i haven’t found one as engaging as land of lisp.

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Re:Land of Lisp (2010) by metacontent on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:09PM (#29858677)

Why's guide to Ruby is the only other book of that ilk that I'm aware of.

https://poignant.guide/

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Re:Land of Lisp (2010) by DASD on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:32PM (#29858852)

Realm of Racket

https://nostarch.com/realmofracket

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Re:Land of Lisp (2010) by rg111 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:36PM (#29860159)

Not as fun, but there is a Rust book that teaches you Rust through teaching you to programming 2D games. It is called Hands-On Rust [0], and it is from PragPub.

When learning a language, I always look for books that actually make you do something rather than tediously, boringly walk you through the user-facing API.

[0]: https://pragprog.com/titles/hwrust/hands-on-rust/

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Re:Land of Lisp (2010) by vr46 on Sunday January 09, 2022 @02:29AM (#29861108)

Plus one, going through this now.

Land of Lisp is great, been years since I touched it.

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Re:Land of Lisp (2010) by pfarrell on Sunday January 09, 2022 @08:07AM (#29862873)

“The Little Schemer”, by Daniel Friedman, takes a different tack, but, like LoL, is entertaining while teaching you the scheme language using the Socratic method.

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