Lisp

Full Lisp course — 44 topics from the basics to advanced use.

Lessons

• Tail Calls
• Continuations and call/cc
• Hygienic vs Unhygienic Macros
• Lazy Evaluation and Streams
• Lambda Calculus and the Y Combinator
• Symbolic Programming
• Domain-Specific Languages
• Logic Programming
• Object Systems Built from Closures
• Introduction: What Is Lisp?
• Choosing a Lisp and Setting Up
• S-Expressions, Atoms and Lists
• Evaluation, Quote and the REPL
• Cons Cells and List Structure
• Defining Functions and Variables
• Conditionals and Predicates
• Recursion
• The Metacircular Evaluator
• Build a Lisp Interpreter in Python
• Extending Your Interpreter
• Compiling Lisp
• Garbage Collection and Memory
• Concurrency Across Lisps
• Lisp for the Web
• Lisp in AI, Research and Industry
• Tooling
• Lisp History, Culture and Best Practices
• Appendices: Projects, Interview Questions, Cheat Sheet & Study Plan
• Lambda, First-Class and Higher-Order Functions
• Local Bindings, Scope and Closures
• Symbols and Symbolic Computation
• Association Lists, Property Lists and Hash Tables
• Iteration Constructs
• Strings, Characters and I/O
• Homoiconicity: Code Is Data
• Macros
• Scheme in Depth
• Racket
• Common Lisp Overview
• Clojure
• Emacs Lisp
• Other Lisps
• Comparing the Dialects
• Course Overview