This website gives information mostly about Common Lisp. (See also, related languages.) This site gives listings of books, reference material, and other resources. There is a also a guide to Lisp programming style which comes from the Lisp FAQ (a listing of Frequently Asked Questions, and their answers).

Below, we list some book categories, courses, and on-line tutrorials

To get your feet wet, here's some classic code:

(write-line "Hello, world.") ;Print the famous greeting.

;;; A function to produce the factorial of an integer.
(defun factorial (n)
   (if (= n 1)
       1
       (* (factorial (- n 1)) n)))

Books

• Introductory Common Lisp texts.
• Advanced Common Lisp texts.
• Object Oriented Programming in Lisp.
• Books on artificial intelliegence which use Lisp.

Courses

• The Open University offers a sort of electronic correspondence course called Introduction to Common Lisp programming for artificial intelligence
• The Oregon Graduate Institute in Portland offsers a Summer School on Advanced Functional Programming. Apparently, there is, or has been, a similar program in Baastad, Sweeden.
• Some conferences have workshops on Lisp or on some aspect of it.

On-Line Tutorials

• An Introduction to Common Lisp by Marty Hall of the Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University.
• Successful Lisp by David Lamkins
• Lisp Tutorial from the Computer Science Department at Tulane University.
• Episodic Learner Model - The Adaptive Remote Tutor (ELM-ART) (or see Trier Educational Software Server) has an award winning Lisp course in German and English.
• LISP Tutorial by Ray Dougherty and Marc Schwarz of the NYU Natural Language Computing Project.
• LISP Primer by Collin Allen and Maneesh Dhagat. (mirrored) Devloped for students at Texas A&M.
• Common LISP Hints, by Geoffrey Gordon of CMU.
• Jeff Dalton's CLOS Guide.
• Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM):
  • Ralf Moeller's Intro to CLIM.
  • Harlequin's CLIM 2 guide