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Gosha

@neauoire That's very interesting, thank you! My thinking was that The Little Schemer might be more approachable than SICP and that I could use the momentum from it for tackling the bigger book. Might have to revisit that assumption.

The reason ANSI Common Lisp is first is that I had already started on it before I made this plan, so I'm going to try to finish first (and somehow I actually don't find it super dry? I like the way it explains things, and the exercises).

I do have a copy of Land of Lisp (first Lisp book I bought a few years back!) but it somehow didn't work for me. Might have to revisit.

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Devine Lu Linvega

@gosha It's good that you've got a good collection so you can jump around between them.

I read SCIP every second year, and each time I find new interesting bits that I've missed. It's a good one to read and re-read. It's approachable, but it's dense.

Have fun in Lisp world! ✊

Gosha

@neauoire Thank you! It's reassuring to know that SICP is approachable, feels a bit daunting at first glance.

Anders Conbere

@gosha @neauoire I find the later half of SICP gets a little in the math weeds for my very practically oriented engineer brain (says the person with a degree in algebras, but we all make mistakes when young!).

Alternatively I find little scheme an absolute joy of a puzzle, but also not super practical.

Is there a good lisp book that’s more like “how to design computer programs”?

Alastair M. D. Touw

@gosha @neauoire I also found SICP to be a bit daunting at first, mostly due to all the mathematically-themed problems (MIT students, eh?). The recorded lectures from 1986 helped me get through some of the material. They're available on MIT's OpenCourseWare. ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-stru

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