From: John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>
To: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with Learning Programming and LISP
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 09:38:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7E8F74CF-2193-44E0-8A65-0A0BEF53A3CA@asu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9618e0b6e24159251b9d264659149b615a641561.camel@disroot.org>
Hi Raghav!
> I would like to learn programming starting with LISP
Great! Lisp is probably the best language to start with!
Lisp books also rank among the best introductory materials to programming. I highly recommend these two:
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (often called SICP)
This uses a dialect of scheme, so you can do the exercises without much translation using guile or racket. It touches on many aspects of computer science and I think is closest to the swiss-army knife you deacribed. There are also excellent lectures freely available on YouTube by the authors.
- Land of Lisp
This is an introduction to Common Lisp. I am less familiar with it, but it always comes highly recommended as a fun introduction to programming by writing simple games. If I’m not mistaken, it may be a little more pragmatic than SICP.
Hope that helps and happy hacking!
- John
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2019-09-09 16:18 Help with Learning Programming and LISP Raghav Gururajan
2019-09-09 16:38 ` John Soo [this message]
2019-09-09 17:04 ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-09-09 17:20 ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-09-09 16:50 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-09-09 16:53 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-09-09 17:05 ` John Soo
2019-09-09 17:04 ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-09-09 17:20 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-09 17:18 ` Vladimir Sedach
2019-09-09 20:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-12 1:16 ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-09-12 6:34 ` Konrad Hinsen
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2019-09-10 20:31 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2019-09-11 20:53 ` Viet Le
2019-09-11 21:24 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2019-09-11 22:15 ` Viet Le
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