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Is a Table Of Contents available anywhere? There isn't one on Amazon.

drcode 17y ago
table of contents Section I - Lisp is Power 1. Getting Started 2. Our First Lisp Program! 3. The Basic Philosophy Behind Lisp Section II - Lisp is Symmetry 4. Conditions 5. Learning Lisp Text and Console Programming... By Building a Text Game Engine! 6. Interacting with the World: Reading and Printing in Lisp 6.5. Lambda- A Function So Important It Deserves It's Own Chapter 7. More About Lists 8. This Ain't Your Daddy's Wumpus 9. Advanced Data Types and Generic Programming Section III- Lisp is Hacking 10. Loop and Format: The Seedy Underbelly of Lisp 11. The Format Function 12. Working with Streams 13. Let's Create A Web Server! 14. Land of Lisp- Secrets of the Seven Guilds Section IV- Lisp is Science 15. Functional Programming is Beautiful 16. Macros 17. Dice of Doom- Advanced Techniques 18. Making Dice of Doom More Fun (this is an old TOC- There'll be a few more chapters not in this list)
- plinkplonk 17y ago
  Thanks Conrad. Looks Awesome! I'll buy it as soon as it becomes available!
- kriyative 17y ago
  Looks great. Nice work. Will you be covering integrating with any graphics libraries (say OpenGL or similar)?
  - drcode 17y ago
    The final game is a fully graphical game. I had to decide what method to use to bring graphics into Lisp that would be the most valuable to learn. Since almost everyone can benefit from learning the nitty gritty of how the web works, I used the following steps: Step 1: Write REPL game Step 2: Write a web server from scratch using sockets Step 3: Write an SVG library Step 4: Implement an inline SVG-based HTML5 browser frontend for the game
    - tsally 17y ago
      Damn. Lisp and HTML5 in the same book. Who woulda thought... :-p
  - marcusbooster 17y ago
    If you're taking votes I'd love to see some OpenGL demos using something like the cl-opengl bindings. I don't know the extent of your book, but navigating asset management has been a bit of a challenge. I know there's a few libraries out there but docs/examples are at a premium. I'm using cl-devil and looked at freeimage, also looking for 3d model importing and the like.
- prakash 17y ago
  what motivated you to write this book? which books inspired you?
  - drcode 17y ago
    The 2 main influences for this book: http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/ http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/ http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
    - bitwize 17y ago
      Good old Basic Computer Games. I was so disappointed by what a racist David Ahl turned out to be. (He was responsible for the incredibly disrespectful "Ninja-Endo" character in late-80s Atari comics.)
      - drcode 17y ago
        Interesting historical detail.
      - harpastum 17y ago
        Do you have any more information on that? I looked around and all I could find were these (fairly racist) asian caricatures in an Atarian Magazine comic strip: http://www.atariage.com/magazines/magazine_page.html?MagazineID=13&CurrentPage=25 http://www.atariage.com/magazines/magazine_page.html?Magazin...
        bitwize 17y ago
        That's what I was referring to. He also has a web page: http://www.swapmeetdave.com http://www.swapmeetdave.com On it he seems to express rather conservative and religious views; make of that what you will.
    - prakash 17y ago
      thanks!
  - 17y ago

table of contents Section I - Lisp is Power 1. Getting Started 2. Our First Lisp Program! 3. The Basic Philosophy Behind Lisp Section II - Lisp is Symmetry 4. Conditions 5. Learning Lisp Text and Console Programming... By Building a Text Game Engine! 6. Interacting with the World: Reading and Printing in Lisp 6.5. Lambda- A Function So Important It Deserves It's Own Chapter 7. More About Lists 8. This Ain't Your Daddy's Wumpus 9. Advanced Data Types and Generic Programming Section III- Lisp is Hacking 10. Loop and Format: The Seedy Underbelly of Lisp 11. The Format Function 12. Working with Streams 13. Let's Create A Web Server! 14. Land of Lisp- Secrets of the Seven Guilds Section IV- Lisp is Science 15. Functional Programming is Beautiful 16. Macros 17. Dice of Doom- Advanced Techniques 18. Making Dice of Doom More Fun (this is an old TOC- There'll be a few more chapters not in this list)

plinkplonk 17y ago
Thanks Conrad. Looks Awesome! I'll buy it as soon as it becomes available!
kriyative 17y ago
Looks great. Nice work. Will you be covering integrating with any graphics libraries (say OpenGL or similar)?
- drcode 17y ago
  The final game is a fully graphical game. I had to decide what method to use to bring graphics into Lisp that would be the most valuable to learn. Since almost everyone can benefit from learning the nitty gritty of how the web works, I used the following steps: Step 1: Write REPL game Step 2: Write a web server from scratch using sockets Step 3: Write an SVG library Step 4: Implement an inline SVG-based HTML5 browser frontend for the game
  - tsally 17y ago
    Damn. Lisp and HTML5 in the same book. Who woulda thought... :-p
- marcusbooster 17y ago
  If you're taking votes I'd love to see some OpenGL demos using something like the cl-opengl bindings. I don't know the extent of your book, but navigating asset management has been a bit of a challenge. I know there's a few libraries out there but docs/examples are at a premium. I'm using cl-devil and looked at freeimage, also looking for 3d model importing and the like.
prakash 17y ago
what motivated you to write this book? which books inspired you?
- drcode 17y ago
  The 2 main influences for this book: http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/ http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/ http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
  - bitwize 17y ago
    Good old Basic Computer Games. I was so disappointed by what a racist David Ahl turned out to be. (He was responsible for the incredibly disrespectful "Ninja-Endo" character in late-80s Atari comics.)
    - drcode 17y ago
      Interesting historical detail.
    - harpastum 17y ago
      Do you have any more information on that? I looked around and all I could find were these (fairly racist) asian caricatures in an Atarian Magazine comic strip: http://www.atariage.com/magazines/magazine_page.html?MagazineID=13&CurrentPage=25 http://www.atariage.com/magazines/magazine_page.html?Magazin...
      - bitwize 17y ago
        That's what I was referring to. He also has a web page: http://www.swapmeetdave.com http://www.swapmeetdave.com On it he seems to express rather conservative and religious views; make of that what you will.
  - prakash 17y ago
    thanks!
- 17y ago