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Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!

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An edition of Land of Lisp (2010)

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Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!

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No Starch Press
Language
English
Pages
482

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Page xvii
Introduction
Page 1
Section I. Lisp Is Power
1. Getting Started with Lisp
Page 15
2. Creating Your First Lisp Program
Page 21
3. Exploring the Syntax of Lisp Code
Page 31
Section II. Lisp Is Symmetry
4. Making Decisions with Conditions
Page 49
5. Building a Text Game Engine
Page 67
6. Interacting with the World: Reading and Printing in Lisp
Page 85
6.5. lambda: A Function So Important It Deserves Its Own Chapter
Page 103
7. Going Beyond Basic Lists
Page 107
8. This Ain't Your Daddy's Wumpus
Page 129
9. Advanced Datatypes and Generic Programming
Page 153
Section III. Lisp Is Hacking
10. Looping with the loop Command
Page 195
11. Printing Text with the format Function
Page 221
12. Working with Streams
Page 237
13. Let's Create a Web Server!
Page 253
Functional Programming Is Beautiful
Page 269
Section IV. Lisp Is Science
14. Ramping Lisp Up a Notch with Functional Programming
Page 291
15. Dice of Doom, a Game Written in the Functional Style
Page 303
16. The Magic of Lisp Macros
Page 339
17. Domain-Specific Languages
Page 355
18. Lazy Programming
Page 375
19. Creating a Graphical, Web-Based Version of Dice of Doom
Page 401
20. Making Dice of Doom More Fun
Page 417
Epilogue
Page 429
Index
Page 465

Edition Notes

Published in
San Francisco
Copyright Date
2011

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
794.8'1526--dc22
Library of Congress
QA76.76.C672B3693 2010, QA76.76.C672B3693, QA76.76.C672 B3693 2011

Contributors

Production Editor
Ansel Staton
Production Editor
Serena Yang
Development Editor
Keith Fancher
Technical Reviewer
Philip Fominykh
Technical Reviewer
Heow Eide-Goodman
Copy Editor
Marilyn Smith
Composition
Susan Glinert Stevens
Proofreader
Linda Seifert
Indexer
Nancy Guenther

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xviii, 482p.
Number of pages
482
Dimensions
23.5 x 18 x 3.2 centimeters
Weight
989 grams

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25431152M
ISBN 10
1593272812
ISBN 13
9781593272814
LCCN
2010026755
OCLC/WorldCat
701106246

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Work ID
OL16807102W

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