A gentle introduction to Lisp(cs.cmu.edu)

82 pointsby nkh17 anni fa16 comments

cs.cmu.edu

A gentle introduction to Lisp

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/index.html

I found this book to be an extremely clear introduction.

16 comments

jacquesm17 anni fa

Thank you nkh.

We should start a nice collection of free programming books like this, there are quite a few of them.

mahmud17 anni fa

http://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks

bradfordw17 anni fa

Heh, as if I didn't have enough to read already on top of work and school. This is great, thanks for posting!

fogus17 anni fa

My first Lisp book. Oh the memories.

felideon17 anni fa

Likewise, although I kind of read it alongside PCL. A chapter or two in Gentle Intro, and then the similar/counterpart chapter in PCL.

http://gigamonkeys.com/book/

whyenot17 anni fa

For me as well. It was also my first real introduction to recursion. Thanks for the dragon stories.

kqr217 anni fa

Paul Graham's On Lisp:

http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

mnemonik17 anni fa

... but I would hardly put On Lisp in the same "gentle" category as Touretzky's book. A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation could easily be someone's first ever programming book. Show me the person whose introduction to programming was On Lisp and I will show you either someone who got fed up real quick, or someone who is a whole lot smarter than me and the coders I know.

I would probably recommend this order:

1. Gentle Intro

2. Practical Common Lisp

3. On Lisp

mofey17 anni fa

You probably haven't read that one. On Lisp is an advanced book describing the use of macros.

kylec17 anni fa

I really wish he would do another printing. I've read the PDF but I'd love a physical copy without paying the outrageous prices they're listed for on used book sites (Amazon, eBay, etc).

sown17 anni fa

As an aside, is there a gentle introduction to prolog?

xel0217 anni fa

There is are a couple http://www.learnprolognow.org/ http://www.amzi.com/AdventureInProlog/advfrtop.htm

A good way is to look at maybe the lecture notes of an undergrad functional programming course. They usually present it quite simply.

Unfortunately the course at UBC does not post the lectures online openly but rather through a restricted CMS.

stralep17 anni fa

When you mention Prolog, is there microProlog implementation for Linux out there?

jister17 anni fa

I like the "gentle" word in the title. Makes it less intimidating, well at least for me.

access_denied17 anni fa

The elisp tutorial that comes with emacs is a well written starting-point for the total beginner.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/html_node...

nickyp17 anni fa

There's also Common Lisp: First Contact: http://homepage.mac.com/svc/CommonLispFirstContact/index.htm...

A very nice 15-page PDF hands-on introduction, in a nice layout optimized for screen-reading on our fancy widescreen displays ;-)