Honestly, watch some of this series. Kaveh's Common Lisp Lesson 01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJcuOLmkl8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJcuOLmkl8 He

Honestly, watch some of this series. Kaveh's Common Lisp Lesson 01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJcuOLmkl8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJcuOLmkl8 He doesn't take you by the hand to setup an environment, but it's a neat exposure (introduction isn't quite the right word) to someone using CL to do interesting things. Mind its a bit Mac and Clozure CL specific if you wanted to follow along, but it's still a good watch of just seeing someone doing stuff without explicitly telling you what they're doing. Sometimes you just want to get stuff through osmosis, and he does interesting, basic things with CL at all sorts of levels.