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The Department of Computer Science & Engineering
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COMMON LISP: AN INTERACTIVE APPROACH
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This book is out of print. The publisher has returned the copyright
and rights to me, the author. I am making it available here in pdf, and dvi
formats, and in two versions of ps format, a heavier font and a finer font, under the following
conditions: hardcopies must retain the title and copyright pages; web
links must point to this page rather than to a separate copy of the
dvi, ps, or pdf file; quotes and other copies of material in the book,
including programs, must include the citation: "Stuart C. Shapiro,
COMMON LISP: An Interactive Approach. W. H. Freeman, New
York, 1992."
Thanks to Brian
Mastenbrook for the pdf and the finer-font ps files.
The notes from an on-line course, CSE
202, using this book, and given in Fall, 2000, is available. This
course is not currently being given. Do not send exercises to the
author.
An even more up-to-date, faster introduction to Common Lisp,
written in Summer 2004 and somewhat biased toward Allegro Common Lisp,
is Stuart
C. Shapiro & David R. Pierce, A
Short Course in Common Lisp.
Book Jacket Quotes
quoted with permission of those quoted
"Stuart Shapiro has done a fine job of updating his widely used Lisp
text ...
Shapiro guides the reader through an interactive, hands-on approach
that encourages learning from experience through an extensive and
carefully graded series of exercises."
--- Guy L. Steele, Jr.
"It's such a great little text."
--- Selmer Bringsjord, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"your book is well written and my students are enjoying their
work. thanks! ... by contrast, i have used [another] lisp text in the
past. a good resource, but yours is much more student friendly and
well paced."
--- Don Thompson, Pepperdine University
A Dozen Reasons to Adopt it
Table of Contents
Errata
(to the published, printed version; the on-line versions have been corrected)
Each short chapter is followed by a set of carefully ordered
exercises. It is best for the student to do every exercise, but for
guidance they are coded as follows.
- (r)
- A review of the material in the text so that the student
can see for herself that Common Lisp behaves as described in the text.
- (i)
- An instructional exercise that provides information not
otherwise introduced in the text.
- (d)
- A drill exercise providing additional practice with
Common Lisp.
- (u)
- A utility exercise to prepare or modify programs the
student will be expected to use in later work.
- (p1)
- A project 1 exercise, one of a series of exercises
distributed through the text so that, by doing them all, the student
will write a small rule-based system, and use that to implement a
small grammar of English and a miniversion of the program Eliza. An
overview and specification of this project is available as a
pdf document,
a dvi document, and as a
PostScript document.
- (p2)
- A project 2 exercise, one of a series of exercises
distributed through the text so that, by doing them all, the student
will write an interactive desk calculator. An
overview and specification of this project is available as a
pdf document, as a
dvi document, and as a
PostScript document.
Last modified: Thu Nov 13 16:37:19 2014
Stuart C. Shapiro
<shapiro@buffalo.edu>
