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This course teaches practical Common Lisp programming through the REPL, language fundamentals, macros, object systems, conditions and restarts, file I/O, parsing, web programming, and applied projects.

Syllabus

  1. Introduction: Why Lisp?
  2. Lather, Rinse, Repeat: A Tour of the REPL
  3. Practical: A Simple Database
  4. Syntax and Semantics
  5. Functions
  6. Variables
  7. Macros: Standard Control Constructs
  8. Macros: Defining Your Own
  9. Practical: Building a Unit Test Framework
  10. Numbers, Characters, and Strings
  11. Collections
  12. They Called It LISP for a Reason: List Processing
  13. Beyond Lists: Other Uses for Cons Cells
  14. Files and File I/O
  15. Practical: A Portable Pathname Library
  16. Object Reorientation: Generic Functions
  17. Object Reorientation: Classes
  18. A Few FORMAT Recipes
  19. Beyond Exception Handling: Conditions and Restarts
  20. The Special Operators
  21. Programming in the Large: Packages and Symbols
  22. LOOP for Black Belts
  23. Practical: A Spam Filter
  24. Practical: Parsing Binary Files
  25. Practical: An ID3 Parser
  26. Practical: Web Programming with AllegroServe
  27. Practical: An MP3 Database
  28. Practical: A Shoutcast Server
  29. Practical: An MP3 Browser
  30. Practical: An HTML Generation Library, the Interpreter
  31. Practical: An HTML Generation Library, the Compiler
  32. Conclusion: What's Next?

 

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