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Land of Lisp : Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! by Conrad Barski (2010, Trade Paperback, New Edition)

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Lisp is a uniquely powerful programming language that,despite its academic reputation, is actually verypractical. Land of Lisp brings the language into the realworld, teaching readers Lisp by showing them how to writeseveral complete Lisp-based games, including a textadventure, an evolution simulation, and a robot battle.While building these games, readers learn the coreconcepts of Lisp programming, such as recursion,input/output, object-oriented programming, and macros.And thanks to Lisp's powerful syntax, the example code isshort and easy to understand. The book is filled with theauthor's brilliant Lisp cartoons, which are sure toappeal to many Lisp fans and, in the tradition of all NoStarch Press titles, make learning more fun.

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Publisher
No Starch Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1593272812
ISBN-13
9781593272814
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102902399

Product Key Features

Author
Conrad Barski
Publication Name
Land of Lisp : Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
New Edition
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
504 Pages

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
7.1in
Item Weight
34.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Qa76.76.C672b3693
Edition Description
New Edition
Reviews
"Turns out the border between genius and insanity is a pretty cheery place." --Paul Graham "An excellent book for someone who wants to learn how to program." --Slashdot "If for no other reason, you should buy Land of Lisp because of the extreme levels of unadulterated nerdery filling its pages. This book will appeal to the long-time Lisper and the neophyte." --Michael Fogus, author of The Joy of Clojure and Functional JavaScript "By choosing to teach Common Lisp using 1980s style text games the author has come up with an original and clever idea that avoids all the usual boring examples found in computer language books." --John Graham-Cumming, author of The Geek Atlas "To be honest, I just bought the book for enjoyment but I find myself getting a new perspective and learning more about Common Lisp. Recommended!" --Mark Watson, author of Scripting Intelligence
Table of Content
Introduction Section I: Lisp Is Power Chapter 1: Getting Started with Lisp Chapter 2: Our First Lisp Program Chapter 3: The Syntax of Lisp Code Section II: Lisp Is Symmetry Chapter 4: Conditions Chapter 5: Learning Lisp Text and Console Programming... By Building a Text Game Engine! Chapter 6: Interacting with the World: Reading and Printing in Lisp Chapter 6.5: Lambda: A Function So Important It Deserves Its Own Chapter Chapter 7: More About Lists Chapter 8: This Ain't Your Daddy's Wumpus Chapter 9: Advanced Data Types and Generic Programming Section III: Lisp Is Hacking Chapter 10: loop and format: The Seedy Underbelly of Lisp Chapter 11: Printing Text with the format Function Chapter 12: Working with Streams Chapter 13: Let's Create a Web Server! Interlude: Functional Programming Is Beautiful Section IV: Lisp Is Science Chapter 14: Ramping Lisp Up a Notch with Functional Programming Chapter 15: Dice of Doom: A Game Written in the Functional Style Chapter 16: The Magic of Lisp Macros Chapter 17: Domain Specific Languages Chapter 18: Lazy Programming Chapter 19: Adding Graphics to Dice of Doom Chapter 20: Making Dice of Doom More Fun Epilogue: Land of Lisp: Secrets of the Seven Guilds
Copyright Date
2010
Topic
Programming / Games, Programming Languages / General, Programming / General
Lccn
2010-026755
Dewey Decimal
794.8/1526
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Computers

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by josef.jelinekJun 10, 2013
Written in a very entertaining style, from Lisp basic to advanced topics.
There are not many books about a programming language that are fun to read, but this is one. It shows developing programs from quite different perspective than what is common now. In my opinion everyone should have at least intermediate knowledge of Lisp just to be a better programmer in any other language. This book takes one there and further. Although mostly focused on Common Lisp, this book is even a very good read for Clojure or Scheme programmers because it shows what was in the "land of Lisp" since the times when Lisp was young and may enlighten some parts of the derived dialects. I really appreciate the visible effort put into this book that is not seen very often in programming books, but hey, they usually target much more volatile languages :)
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by bruinbear_hopki...Oct 29, 2013
Excellent book.
Excellent book. I would recommend this to anyone looking to learn more about programming. It teaches lisp in a fun and comical way. Nice blend of solid content, as well as comical prose and comics/graphic illustrations to teach the reader a new style of programming.

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