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Chapter 5: Sources of Additional Information

Common Lisp Tutorials

Many good tutorials exist on Common Lisp. Here is a selection of the best:

Brooks, Rodney. Programming in Common Lisp. New York: John Wiley
& Sons, 1985.

Graham, Paul. ANSI Common Lisp. New York: Prentice Hall, 1995.

Koschmann, Timothy. The Common Lisp Companion. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 1990.

This well-written book includes material from the second edition of Common Lisp: The Language, including information on CLOS. The author is on the ANSI XJ313 standards committee for Common Lisp.

Miller, Molly M., and Eric Benson. Lisp Style and Design. Maynard, MA: Digital Press, 1990.

An excellent intermediate-level book for someone learning Common Lisp.

Norvig, Peter. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp. San Mateo, CA: Morgan-Kauffmann, 1991.

An excellent book for all levels of Common Lisp programming, with many examples.

Tanimoto, Steven. The Elements of Artificial Intelligence Using Common Lisp. Computer Science Press, WH Freemand and Company, 1990.

Tatar, Deborah. A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp. Maynard, MA: Digital Press, 1987.

Touretzky, David. Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computing. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990.

Touretzky writes well and includes many good examples for novices.

Wilensky, Robert. Common LispCraft. New York: Norton & Co, 1986.

Winston, Patrick, and Berthold Claus Paul Horn. Lisp, third edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

A thorough academic text that includes material on CLOS.

The following is an excellent introduction to programming, abstraction, and computer science. It uses Scheme, a language similar to Common Lisp. With a relatively small knowledge of Lisp, you should be able to make use of it.

Abelson, Harold, and Gerald Sussman. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985.

If you are learning CLOS

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