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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: help-guix@gnu.org, Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org>
Subject: Re: Help with Learning Programming and LISP
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:50:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736h5e7n8.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9618e0b6e24159251b9d264659149b615a641561.camel@disroot.org>

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Raghav,

I can't *not* mention classics like SICP (Free, comes with 
retro-wave videos, easily found on-line), and The 
{Little,{R,S}easoned} Schemer series (not free, and not for 
everyone).  Both of these focus on Scheme, which as you probably 
know is a very elegant minimal dialect of Lisp.

With that out of the way, and as much as I enjoyed them, I don't 
think either can be described as swiss army knives.

I just last week downloaded ‘The Land of Lisp’[0] for a friend. 
It's definitely more modern and a lot more silly, aims to help you 
‘learn Lisp, one game at a time’, and sounds the hands-on 
introduction you're looking for.

In the more serious camp: I've heard good things about Practical 
Common Lisp.  Unlike Land of Lisp, it's freely available 
on-line[1].

I can't personally vouch for either, but I hope to have been of 
service.

Kind regards,

T G-R

[0]: http://landoflisp.com/ (beware: my IceCat shows an audio icon 
:-)
[1]: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-09 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-09 16:18 Help with Learning Programming and LISP Raghav Gururajan
2019-09-09 16:38 ` John Soo
2019-09-09 17:04   ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-09-09 17:20   ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-09-09 16:50 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
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
     [not found] <mailman.370.1568090751.2189.help-guix@gnu.org>
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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