Practical Common Lisp

Dive into the world of Common Lisp programming with this comprehensive course. Learn the fundamentals of Lisp syntax, semantics, and powerful features like macros and generic functions. Explore practical applications through hands-on projects, including building a unit test framework, creating a spam filter, parsing binary files, and developing web applications. Master advanced topics such as condition handling, packages, and the LOOP macro. Gain real-world experience by constructing an MP3 database, Shoutcast server, and HTML generation library. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid foundation in Common Lisp and be ready to tackle complex programming challenges.

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?