[SlugLUG] Programming books

[karly at kipshouse.org]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 09:27:18PM -0700, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
> Can someone suggest a good, "programmed learning" style, book on
> programming... along the lines of "Oh, Pascal!"

I don't know that book.  Here's a book that's available on-line or
in print, uses emacs for the ide, and steps you through building
some real programs (in CommonLisp).

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

I've heard good things about it, and have tried to work through it,
but get hung up on the learning emacs part, and the devoting time
to learning a language I'm not getting paid to use part.

I swear though I will one day.

-karl

PS  While CommonLisp is nearly as old as I am, I would argue that
it is relatively modern.

> 
> The combination of "Oh, Pascal!" and Turbo Pascal (with the integrated
> IDE, etc.) really launched my "career" as a programmer... I really liked
> the systematic, step by step by step process, with the code samples, the
> suggested modifications, the actual practical hands on examples I was
> able to get functioning on the lab computers, etc. and I'd like to
> recapture that experience.
> 
> Hopefully in a high level programming language / framework (like Ruby on
> Rails)... but I really don't care much *what* language, as long as it is
> relatively modern and gives me the ability to create code that will
> execute under Linux or even Windows...
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Rohan Sheth wrote:
> > It isn't too terrible.  They get technical relatively fast...and they
> > automagically assume you have a decent amount of experience with C/Java
> > and Unix-based systems.  But still not bad.
> >
> > --Rohan
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 17:13 -0700, karly at kipshouse.org wrote:
> >   
> >> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:17:26PM -0700, Rohan Sheth wrote:
> >>     
> >>> O'Reilly's Learning Perl - 3rd Edition.
> >>>
> >>> Off amazon for only $3.50!
> >>>       
> >> Dude!  I _hate_ that book.  {-;
> >>
> >> I found a book called "Higher Order Perl" that I like a lot.  It
> >> puts a Lispish spin on things.
> >>
> >> One of these days I'll learn to program in Lisp (then I can use
> >> emacs).
> >>
> >> -karl
> >>
> >>     
> >>> --Rohan
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 13:11 -0700, karly at kipshouse.org wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:52:42PM -0700, Rohan Sheth wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> In other news...my new perl book just got here =)
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Which one?  ALways looking fo good Perl books.
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>>>> --Rohan
> >>>>>
> >>>>>           
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