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My notes for the fantastic book: Land of Lisp
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My notes for the fantastic book: Land of Lisp

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#+TITLE:My Land of Lisp Notes

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The files in this repo are the abundance of notes I took while reading

through Conrad Barski's fantastic book [[https://www.nostarch.com/lisp.htm][Land of Lisp]].



I went through the book quite a while ago, though I've ended up

sending my notes to quite a few people so far, so why not make a

repository for them?



The repo contains primarily [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode][Org files]] with live Lisp code blocks in

them. So, while you /can/ read it all on GitHub (Which has incomplete

Org support), I highly recommend viewing the files in Emacs so you can

play with the blocks of code and click all the links in the documents.



Now, a quick rundown of the files I have in the repo (They aren't

exactly alphabetical):



* The notes

- [[./notes/textadventure.org][The Text Adventure]]: The first real game made in Land of Lisp

- [[./notes/textadventureExtras.org][Text Adventure extras and Graphviz]]: Where we make a Graphviz graph

  generator that will be used quite a bit in the future.

- [[./notes/grandTheftWumpus.org][Grand Theft Wumpus]]: The second game made in the book, a re-imagining

  of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus][Hunt the Wumpus]] with a twist!

- [[./notes/dataTypes.org][Data Types besides the obvious]]: Notes for the introduction of

  arrays, hash tables, structs, and streams.

- [[./notes/generic.org][Generic Programming]]: Polymorphism, Lisp style!

- [[./notes/orcBattle.org][Orc Battle!]]: A strategy game that shows off generic polymorphism for

  its different types of enemies.

- [[./notes/hacky.org][Hackity hack]]: Originally to show off all kinds of Lisp hackiness,

  though in the end, I just ended up writing a little bit about

  =format=.

- [[./notes/evolution.org][Evolution]]: A chapter that uses =loop= to drive an evolution

  simulator.

- [[./notes/server.org][Let's Create a Web Server!]]: Creating a web server in Lisp from

  scratch...

- [[./notes/functional.org][Functional Programming]]: Since I already love functional programming,

  I didn't take too many notes here.

- [[./notes/diceOfDoom.org][Dice of Doom]]: The beginning of the end! [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai][AI]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree][decision trees]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minmax][Minmax]],

  and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming][functional programming]] to make a Risk-like board game.

- [[./notes/svg.org][Creating SVGs]]: The chapter that lets you make a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language][DSL]] using Lisp

  Macros to create [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics][SVG images]].

- [[./notes/textadventure2.org][Revisiting the Text Adventure]]: Building an interactive world.

- [[./notes/dice_v2.org][Dice of Doom: Lazy edition]]: Lazy evaluation and handling damn-near

  infinite sized data structures. Now our game can be huge.

- [[./notes/webdice.org][Dice of Doom: On teh interwebz!]]: Making Dice of Doom have a pretty

  interface with SVG graphics. Oh my!

- [[./notes/dice_v4.org][Dice of Doom: Party hard edition]]: In this chapter, we add more

  opponents, so we can have a 4-player brawl.



* Other Files

- [[./notes/experiments.org][Experiments]]: Just a few boring experiments with some neat features.

- [[./notes/clisp.org][CLISP thingies]]: I used [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Bank_Common_Lisp][SBCL]] for most of the book, and this file had

  an explanation of some of the CLISP-specific code in it.



#  LocalWords:  structs LocalWords hackiness