Learn Lisp the Hard Way

Re:Learn Lisp the Hard Way by Shorel on Monday November 10, 2014 @05:00PM (#8586820)

The best lisp book I have found to learn Lisp, while really understanding all that's happening underneath is "COMMON LISP: An Interactive Approach".

Basically, there's no hand waving in this book. It doesn't teach you to have a lisp blog in five minutes doing copy paste of code you don't understand.

It respects you as a smart learner, and makes you write the code, you learn doing stuff by yourself being smartly led by the author, and by the end of the book you have written a very complex piece of software with many advanced concepts and you understand more about lisp than you could have by following endless web tutorials.

The book can be downloaded from: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/

It is to me a vastly underrated resource for all people interested in Lisp.

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Re:Learn Lisp the Hard Way by thephoeron on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @09:56AM (#8590048)

Thanks for the link! I'm surprised that I have not seen this before.

The methodology in this book is definitely close to what I'm trying to achieve with LLTHW. I'll be sure to add it to the list of references, and look forward to what it can teach me about teaching Lisp.

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