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Re: Help with Learning Programming and LISP
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John Soo |
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Re: Help with Learning Programming and LISP |
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Mon, 9 Sep 2019 09:38:15 -0700 |
Hi Raghav!
> I would like to learn programming starting with LISP
Great! Lisp is probably the best language to start with!
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
translation using guile or racket. It touches on many aspects of computer
science and I think is closest to the swiss-army knife you deacribed. There are
also 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
always comes highly recommended as a fun introduction to programming by writing
simple games. If I’m not mistaken, it may be a little more pragmatic than SICP.
Hope that helps and happy hacking!
- John