COMMON LISP: An Interactive Approach.

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