Common Lisp Tutorial
In case you don’t know it yet: Peter Seibel’s Practical Common Lisp is the best Common Lisp tutorial around. It’s also a great book on its own, and a recommended reading for anyone looking to pick up a new programming language (and Common Lisp is a recommended language for anyone, too :). Go read it.
My personal method of reading is, as it lack traditional textbook problem sections, to follow along with the problem specifications, but not with the code, and only compare the results once finished. This was the way for me to avoid lazily reading, but not actually comprehending, the code.
Also, if you choose to read the web version (there’s a dead tree edition to be picked up from Amazon, y’know), you will want to install the greasemonkey script for footnotes hyperlinkification. And be sure to read it to the end, including all the practicals. A fair body of the code from the book got packaged into separate libraries and is actually used by many projects, this way you will be gathering knowledge of some very useful and widely employed packages.
And one final tip for any would-be Common Lisper: CLHS is your friend. Learn to read it today.
