From: AlexRudyk
Subject: The best book for newbie
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:12:12 +0000
Message-ID: <1141380732.709209.99760@t39g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>

Hello

I am looking for Lisp book with exercises for newbie in Lisp. Could you
suggest some books?

Thanks

• Re: The best book for newbie Lars Rune Nøstdal
• Re: The best book for newbie Hrvoje Blazevic

From: Lars Rune Nøstdal
Subject: Re: The best book for newbie
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:42:33 +0000
Message-ID: <1141382553.485673.231000@t39g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>

I like Practical Common Lisp, but it does not have exercises.

I bet there are other books (for any programming language) freely
available online with exercises & solutions that you could use for
testing yorself.

-- 
mvh,
Lars Rune Nøstdal
http://lars.nostdal.org/

From: Hrvoje Blazevic
Subject: Re: The best book for newbie
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:24:16 +0000
Message-ID: <du98o8$4u4$1@ss405.t-com.hr>

AlexRudyk wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am looking for Lisp book with exercises for newbie in Lisp. Could you
> suggest some books?
> 
> Thanks
> 

Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation, by  David S. 
Touretzky.

This is probably the best introductory book for a total Lisp/functional 
programming newbie. After this one you can tackle Paul Graham's books.

The book is out of print, but is downloadable at:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/index.html

-- Hrvoje