CSC 375/CIT 394

Topics in Programming: Common Lisp

Readings

There are four on-line textbooks from which readings will be assigned. The most important text to read is the first one, Practical Common Lisp, so make sure you keep up with those readings. When the material from this text is too brief (or non-existant), it is important that you read some of the other material listed below. All four textbooks are listed below under sources, with their URLs. Beneath the table are some other URLs that you might want to check out for specific topics. On Lisp is perhaps the least interesting to read, so we will use it sparsely.

The readings are listed day-by-day in the table. We will try to stick with this schedule as much as possible, but later in the semester, things might change based on how quickly or slowly we are moving through the material. Also note that the table is currently incomplete.

Sources:

NOTE: Pages from On Lisp and Gentle Introduction are the Adobe Acrobat pages, not the true textbook pages.

Date	Readings from Practical Common Lisp	Readings from Successful Lisp	Other Readings
Jan 10	Chapters 1, 2	Chapter 34	Gentle Introduction Chapter 1 (p. 9-41)
Jan 12	Chapter 4 (Skip Formatting Lisp Code), 5 (Through Function Return Values	Chapter 3 Lesson 1, 2, 3, and 7
Jan 17	Chapter 6, 10 (Up through Higher Math)	Chapter 3 Lesson 5, 6, Chapter 8
Jan 19	Chapter 12	Chapter 3 Lesson 4, Chapter 11, 17
Jan 24	Chapter 13 (Through Sets)		On Lisp Chapter 3
Jan 26	Chapter 7 (Skip The Mightly Loop)	Chapter 5
Jan 31		Chapter 9, 12
Feb 2			Read this web site on Genetic Algorithms
Feb 7	Chapter 14, 18	Chapter 3 Lesson 11, Chapter 19, 24
Feb 9			Gentle Introduction Chapter 8 (p. 243-298)
Feb 14			Continue Chapter 8
Feb 16	Chapter 11	Chapter 3 Lesson 10, Chapter 13
Feb 21			Gentle Introduction Chapter 12 (p. 377-394)
Feb 23	Chapter 13 (Starting at Lookup Tables)		Gentle Introduction Chapter 13 (p. 395-416)
Feb 28		Chapter 28, 30	The LispWork's User's Guide chapters 3-6
******* Mar 2 *******	*************************** Schedule modified ***************************	***************** *****************	******************* *******************
Mar 14		Chapters 6, 12, 13	On Lisp Chapters 4, 5
Mar 16	Chapter 3
Mar 21	Chapter 8	Chapter 20	On Lisp Chapters 7, 8
Mar 23		Chapter 21	On Lisp Chapters 9, 10, 11
Mar 28	Chapter 22	Chapter 32 (first part only)	Loop Macro
Mar 30			Search Topics: Search in AI Search in AI Heuristic Search and Exhaustive Search
Apr 4	Quiz 3		Search Continued
Apr 6	Chapter 17	Chapter 7
Apr 11	Chapter 16		A Guide to CLOS
Apr 13	CLOS continued from previous readings
Apr 18	Error Handling Chapter 19	Instead of Compilation Chapter 9, 23

Other useful on-line references:

The Common Lisp Cookbook (material on strings, hash tables, functions, I/O, files, packages, macros and CLOS, plus topics that we aren't covering this semester)
Common Lisp the Language 2nd Edition, this is THE reference on CL, often abbreviated by others as CLtL. Very challenging to read though.
A Guide to CLOS
Tutorial for the Loop Macro although somewhat brief
A Guide to Good Lisp Style by Peter Norvig and Kent M. Pitman, in postscript format only
Lecture Notes by Nick Levine

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