Educational Resources

• (New to this list) Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp by Peter Norvig.
• (Updated) LISP Tutor Jr - One of the earliest intelligent tutoring systems created for teaching Lisp Programming at Carnegie Mellon University.
• (Updated) Basic Lisp Techniques, a comprehensive basic Lisp handbook by David Cooper, Jr., designed to get you coding quickly (100+ pages).
• (New) New Book: Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!, by Conrad Barski M.D.
• (New) Free Lisp software/tools From Teesside University (a pattern matcher, a multiagent platform that also links with Java & C#, tutorials, etc).
• (Updated) Free Lisp Training Videos. Recorded from Franz's Allegro CL Certification Program.
• Practical Common Lisp, by Peter Seibel
• Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach - Stuart C. Shapiro's book is now available as a free download.
• Successful Lisp - David B. Lamkin's book Successful Lisp has recently been published and is now available for purchase.
• Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music - Prof. David Cope, noted composer, author and programmer leads participants in creating their own composition and analysis software using Lisp. The Workshop typically occurs in June.
• How to Learn Lisp and CLOS
• The Dynamic Learning Center gives University Professors and Students sample code and learning tools designed to introduce future developers to the power of Common Lisp.
• The Common Lisp Cookbook is an online recipe book containing code fragments for many Common Lisp programming tasks.
• An Introductory Guide to learning Lisp created by Pascal Costanza.
• ELM-ART, an interactive online Lisp Tutorial created by Dr. Gerhard Weber.
• CL/CLOS Compared To Other Languages
• White Papers
• Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by David S. Touretzky, published in 1990 and now out of print, this excellent introduction is available for free download both in Acrobat PDF and Postscript format.
• The Common Lisp Graphics Resource Page is a useful resource for Common Lisp programmers who want to get started in graphics programming.
• Marty Hall's Common Lisp page for Johns Hopkins University
• Allegro CL Examples and Utilities is a code repository of applications and programs which demonstrate Allegro CL features and non-trivial ways Lisp can be used.
• Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp by David Lamkins provides a wonderful overview of Common Lisp for the working programmer.