Name: Anonymous 2018-03-09 5:28
Just started reading Land of Lisp. Honestly, the applications toward making games helps me learn quite a bit more easily than the abstractions that SICP delves into within the first 50 pages. Maybe I'm retarded, but SICP lost me with higher level concepts too early in the book.
That being said, one problem I have with the land of lisp is that it uses ANSI Common Lisp as its primary language to write the miniature games that you go through. ANSI Common Lisp seems like a much clunkier language than Scheme and Clojure, two languages that I've learned a little about recently as well. The primitives are unintuitive ("defparameters" where a simple "def" or "define" suffices in Scheme and Clojure). Perhaps I'm just telling myself these things to procrastinate, but I want to know if any of you have experience with self-taught programming recently. If so, which books would you recommend that allow you to apply programming in "gamified" manners that makes it fun and palatable for beginners.
That being said, one problem I have with the land of lisp is that it uses ANSI Common Lisp as its primary language to write the miniature games that you go through. ANSI Common Lisp seems like a much clunkier language than Scheme and Clojure, two languages that I've learned a little about recently as well. The primitives are unintuitive ("defparameters" where a simple "def" or "define" suffices in Scheme and Clojure). Perhaps I'm just telling myself these things to procrastinate, but I want to know if any of you have experience with self-taught programming recently. If so, which books would you recommend that allow you to apply programming in "gamified" manners that makes it fun and palatable for beginners.