For programming assignments, either Allegro Franz Common Lisp or LispWorks is recommended. However, feel free to use whatever Common Lisp environment you wish, there are a great number available, for instance, check out this list of Common Lisp implementations.

The following editor was recommended by one of the students. If you download the Common Lisp highlighter, it gives you parenthesis matching. You might find this easier to work with than the editor in Lispworks, and then you can copy and paste into your REPL interpreter. Follow this link to ConTEXT Editor.

Programming Assignments:

• Programming Assignment #1 Due Date: Monday January 17 NOTE: to print a function's definition to the screen do: (pprint (function name)) or (pprint #'name) where name is the name of the function. This prints out the function as a lambda function (without the function's name)
• Programming Assignment #2 Due Date: Thursday January 26
• Programming Assignment #3 Due Date: Thursday February 2
• Programming Assignment #4 Due Date: Thursday February 9
• Programming Assignment #5 Due Date: Tuesday February 21
• Large Programming Assignment #1 Due Date: Tuesday March 14
  • Files for this assignment (disabled):
  • employees.txt -- Employee Records file
  • week1.txt -- First week's Payroll transaction file
  • week2.txt -- Second week's Payroll transaction file
  • week3.txt -- Third week's Payroll transaction file
  • empsample.txt -- Example Employee Records file
  • paysample.txt -- Example Weekly Payroll transaction file
    NOTE: there were some errors in the following two output files, I have corrected them (I hope?)
  • empsample2.txt -- Example Employee Records when done
  • checks.txt -- Example output of checks and check stubs
• Programming Assignment #6 Due Date: Thursday March 2
• stars.txt text file for program #6
• Programming Assignment #7 Due Date: Thursday March 23 (due date changed to the 23rd)
• Programming Assignment #8 Due Date: Thursday March 30
• Large Programming Assignment #2 Due Date: Thursday April 6

• Programming Assignment #9 (extra credit) Due Date: Thursday April 13
• Large Programming Assignment #3 Due Date: Thursday April 27

Study Guides:

• Study Guide for Quiz #1 Quiz Date: Thursday, February 2
• Study Guide for Quiz #2 Quiz Date: Tuesday, February 28
• Study Guide for Quiz #3 Quiz Date: Tuesday, April 4
• Study Guide for Quiz #4 Quiz Date: Tuesday, April 25