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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next prev 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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