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table of contents

Section I - Lisp is Power

1. Getting Started

2. Our First Lisp Program!

3. The Basic Philosophy Behind Lisp

Section II - Lisp is Symmetry

4. Conditions

5. Learning Lisp Text and Console Programming... By Building a Text Game Engine!

6. Interacting with the World: Reading and Printing in Lisp

6.5. Lambda- A Function So Important It Deserves It's Own Chapter

7. More About Lists

8. This Ain't Your Daddy's Wumpus

9. Advanced Data Types and Generic Programming

Section III- Lisp is Hacking

10. Loop and Format: The Seedy Underbelly of Lisp

11. The Format Function

12. Working with Streams

13. Let's Create A Web Server!

14. Land of Lisp- Secrets of the Seven Guilds

Section IV- Lisp is Science

15. Functional Programming is Beautiful

16. Macros

17. Dice of Doom- Advanced Techniques

18. Making Dice of Doom More Fun

(this is an old TOC- There'll be a few more chapters not in this list)

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Looks great. Nice work.

Will you be covering integrating with any graphics libraries (say OpenGL or similar)?

The final game is a fully graphical game. I had to decide what method to use to bring graphics into Lisp that would be the most valuable to learn. Since almost everyone can benefit from learning the nitty gritty of how the web works, I used the following steps:

   Step 1: Write REPL game
   Step 2: Write a web server from scratch using sockets
   Step 3: Write an SVG library
   Step 4: Implement an inline SVG-based HTML5 browser frontend for the game

Damn. Lisp and HTML5 in the same book. Who woulda thought... :-p

If you're taking votes I'd love to see some OpenGL demos using something like the cl-opengl bindings.

I don't know the extent of your book, but navigating asset management has been a bit of a challenge. I know there's a few libraries out there but docs/examples are at a premium. I'm using cl-devil and looked at freeimage, also looking for 3d model importing and the like.

what motivated you to write this book? which books inspired you?

The 2 main influences for this book:

http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/

http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

Good old Basic Computer Games.

I was so disappointed by what a racist David Ahl turned out to be. (He was responsible for the incredibly disrespectful "Ninja-Endo" character in late-80s Atari comics.)

Interesting historical detail.

Do you have any more information on that? I looked around and all I could find were these (fairly racist) asian caricatures in an Atarian Magazine comic strip:

http://www.atariage.com/magazines/magazine_page.html?Magazin...

That's what I was referring to. He also has a web page:

http://www.swapmeetdave.com

On it he seems to express rather conservative and religious views; make of that what you will.

thanks!

Dr. Barski has been at it for ages; see his site.

http://lisperati.com/

Conrad, I am from the D.C. area; I have been putting off coming to D.C. Fringe for ages until I got a call from Australia and I was told I was on next week's flight. What a bummer. I lived in Arlington Virginia (on Columbia Pike, right near Falls Church and Alexandria) and I worked in the city at 17 and N. How on bloody earth did I miss a Lisp meeting I would never understand; where I live, I am lucky to find a computer programmer.

Thanks Conrad. Looks Awesome! I'll buy it as soon as it becomes available!

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