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Online Tutorials for programming Common Lisp or with Common Lisp. See also the rest of the _(Document)s and _(Lisp Books), and the _(Getting Started) guide. <h2>Recommended for beginners</h2> <ul> <li> <a href="http://art2.ph-freiburg.de/Lisp-Course">ELM-ART</a> is an interactive and adaptive Web-based Lisp tutorial, itself written in Common Lisp, developed by <a href="http://art.ph-freiburg.de/psy/people/GWeber.html">Prof. Gerhard Weber</a> of the University of Freiburg. Tutorial available in English and German. Type in a unique user name and password: no pre-registration step required. (Home page last changed: 2006) <li><a href="http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/dst/www/LispBook/index.html">Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation</a> by David S. Touretzky. Assumes no programming prerequisite. <li><a href="http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html">Casting SPELs in Lisp -- A Comic Book</a> by Conrad Barski, M.D. Quick interactive intro to Lisp, including macros (aka SPELs), using an interactive adventure game example. Last updated 2008. A prequel to his book, Land Of Lisp (2010). <li>Peter Seibel's <a href="http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/">Practical Common Lisp</a> (see also _(Practical Common Lisp) on cliki)</li> <li>David B. Lamkins' <a href="http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/cover.html" >Successful Lisp</a> book <li><a href="http://play.org/links/lisp-setup">Prepare your Lisp environment(s)</a>. How to set up a Common Lisp implementation and IDE. <li><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/faculty/shapiro/Commonlisp/">COMMON LISP: An Interactive Approach</a>, by Stuart C. Shapiro </ul> <h2>Further reading</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.norvig.com/luv-slides.ps">Slides</a> for the ``Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style'' by Peter Norvig and Kent Pitman at the Lisp Users and Vendors Conference, August 10, 1993 <li>Heinrich Taube's <a href="http://ddm.caad.ed.ac.uk/staff/michael/class/moz/cm/doc/contrib/lispstyle.html">Lisp Style Tips</a> quickly covers the major points of style for efficient Lisp use for beginners. <li><a href="http://p-cos.net/lisp/guide.html">Pascal Costanza's Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp</a> <li><a href="http://chaitanyagupta.com/lisp/restarts.html">Common Lisp: A Tutorial on Conditions and Restarts</a> <li><a href="http://vmathew.in/cond-sys.html">Advanced exception handling</a> <li>Using <a href="http://vmathew.in/lisp-repl.html">Common Lisp REPL tools</a> for development and debugging. <li><a href="http://www.adampetersen.se/articles/lispweb.htm">Lisp for the Web</a> <li><a href="http://frank.kank.net/essays/hash.html">Hash Table Syntax in Common Lisp</a> - reader macro and pretty printer tutorial </ul> <h2>University course material</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.nicklevine.org/declarative/lectures/">Lisp and elements of style</a> is a twelve-lecture course written by _(Nick Levine) for delivery to undergraduates at <a href="http://www.apu.ac.uk">Anglia Polytechnic University</a>. It covers most introductory aspects of the language (apart from _(CLOS)) and includes exercises, suggestions for practical sessions, two longer assignments and even an exam with model answers. Online and free. (Courses from 1999 and 2000. Last update in 2001) <li>Four <a href="http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/310/pwfong/Lisp/">lisp tutorials for the CS310 class</a> taught by Philip Fong at Simon Fraser University. The tutorials consider basic lisp programming, _(functional programming), _(data abstraction), and _(imperative programming). Each has exercises, source code, and solutions. (No course dates; web server says page was last updated 2005) <li> <a href="http://dept-info.labri.fr/~idurand/enseignement/PFS/Book/programmation.html">Traité de Programmation en Common Lisp</a> (in French), by Robert Strandh and Irène Durand. (2001) (old link http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/%7Estrandh/Teaching/Programmation-Symbolique/Common/Book/HTML/programmation.html is dangling). <li><A href="http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/courses/EA072/lisp9596/index.html">Introdução à Linguagem Lisp</a>. Tutorial by João Cachopo and António Leitão. Excercises with answers. In Portuguese. (1995) <li>Although teaching Scheme, Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (_(SICP)) course taught at MIT is a very good resource for learning how to think in Lisp. Videos of lectures are available from <a href="http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/">CSAIL</a>, or <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5546836985338782440#">streaming on Google Video</a>. <li>_(DataMiningTools Lisp slides) are a set of slides introducing aspects of Lisp programming. <li> <a href="http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/325/readings/index.html">EECS 325 Lecture Notes </a> </ul> <h2>Implementation Provided Tutorials</h2> Those are Common Lisp tutorial provided by implementations. They may have some implementation specific examples, but may still be useful to all. <ul> <li><a href="http://clisp.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/clisp/clisp/raw-file/tip/doc/LISP-tutorial.txt">clisp LISP-tutorial.txt</a> <li><a href="http://www.franz.com/resources/educational_resources/cooper.book.pdf">Basic Lisp Techniques, by David Cooper, Jr., a comprehensive basic Lisp workbook (some Allegro CL dependencies).</a> </ul> <h2>Cliki Tutorials</h2> /("Online Tutorial" :attribute :topic :match :exact)
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