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From: John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: Help with Learning Programming and LISP
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 09:38:15 -0700
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To: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org>
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Hi Raghav!

>  I would like to learn programming starting with LISP

Great! Lisp is probably the best language to start with!=20

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 tran=
slation using guile or racket. It touches on many aspects of computer scienc=
e and I think is closest to the swiss-army knife you deacribed. There are al=
so 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 a=
lways comes highly recommended as a fun introduction to programming by writi=
ng simple games. If I=E2=80=99m not mistaken, it may be a little more pragma=
tic than SICP.=20

Hope that helps and happy hacking!

- John=