Land of Lisp sample chapter available(nostarch.com)
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Land of Lisp sample chapter available
http://nostarch.com/download/Lisp08.pdf
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Read about the book and check out the TOC here: http://nostarch.com/lisp.htm
I actually played Hunt the Wumpus on my dads Kaypro2 when I was a kid. Grand Theft Wumpus might be the funniest thing I read this week. With Lisp + Graphs? Solid. I wonder if more of No Starch's offerings are this cool.
Interesting - I wrote pretty much exactly the same code for chapter 2 of Hello Python, except I build a tree first (by adding each cave in sequence at a random point) and then add some random two-way connections, rather than trying to find islands later.
http://manning.com/briggs/ if you're interested in checking it out. I follow a similar route - teach programming by jumping in on something cool (eg. a game) and explain things as you go.
http://manning.com/briggs/ if you're interested in checking it out. I follow a similar route - teach programming by jumping in on something cool (eg. a game) and explain things as you go.
Awesome, I was beginning to wonder if this book would really come out or not. It's back on my Amazon wish list!
The "what you've learned" at the end of this chapter made me chuckle :) It says you learnt about `loop`, `intersection`, `set-difference` and `remove-duplicates`.
(PS: It'll be nice if HN formats back-ticks as code.)
(PS: It'll be nice if HN formats back-ticks as code.)