Online Tutorials

• An Introduction to Common Lisp by Marty Hall of the Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University.
• Lisp Tutorial from the Computer Science Department at Tulane University.
• Episodic Learner Model - The Adaptive Remote Tutor (ELM-ART) (or see Trier Educational Software Server) has an award winning Lisp course in German and English.
• LISP Tutorial by Ray Dougherty and Marc Schwarz of the NYU Natural Language Computing Project.
• LISP Primer by Collin Allen and Maneesh Dhagat. Devloped for students at Texas A&M.
• Common LISP Hints, by Geoffrey Gordon of CMU.
• Jeff Dalton's CLOS Guide.
• A Loop tutorial by Peter Karp .
• Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM):
  • Ralf Moeller's Intro to CLIM.
  • Xanalys's CLIM 2 user's guide
• Common Lisp, Typing and Mathematics: a tutorial by Francis Sergeraert intended to help mathematicians understand how the language can be used for mathematical applications
• Introduction mmation en Common Lisp written by Francis Leboutte. A short introduction to CL and programming. In French.
• David B. Lamkins' Successful Lisp book.
• Basic Lisp Techniques: an introductory book by David Cooper on how Lisp is used for solving problems
• Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation.
• On Lisp by Paul Graham
• Chris Riesbeck's AI course website has a collection of tips on Lisp and almost page-by-page comments of Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp (which is not on-line).
• The Common Lisp Cookbook is online now. We need contributors, so please help us out!
• Lisp and elements of style is a twelve-lecture course written by Nick Levine for delivery to undergraduates at Anglia Polytechnic University. It covers most introductory aspects of the language (apart from CLOS) and includes exercises, suggestions for practical sessions, two longer assignments and even an exam with model answers. Online and free.
• An excellent interactive lisp tutorial is available in both English and German.
• Mark Watson's book Loving Lisp, or the Savy Programmer's Secret Weapon is available for download.
• There are four lisp tutorials for the CS310 class taught by Philip Fong at Simon Fraser University. The tutorials consider basic lisp programming, functional programming, data abstraction, and imperative programming. Each has exercises, source code, and solutions.
• The Dynamic Learning Center.
• Practical Lisp Programming A tutorial for beginners which explains how to set up a Lisp system for maximum productivity. Covers ilisp, installing the online references (CLtL2 and the hyperspec), important libraries which may not come with your implementation (defsystem and others). Note: This is work in progress.
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Common Lisp Packages by Erann Gat.
• The Idiot's Guide to Special Variables by Erann Gat.
• Pathnames Quick-Start & Quick-Reference by Gene Michael Stover. "The Steele book & the Hperspec contain reference material, but pathnames look complex (...) Common Lisp's file system interface is simple in practice (...) it'd be handy to have an alternative discussion of them. That's what I've attempted to capture here."