Announcing Workshop:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/announcing-intro-to-lisp-workshop/">http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/announcing-intro-to-lisp-workshop/</a><br>
<p><strong>INTRO TO LISP WORKSHOP</strong> <strong></strong></p>

<p><strong>WHO: </strong>Programmers interested in learning more about Lisp.</p>

<p><strong>HOW MUCH</strong>:  The low, low price of 3ish hours of attention span.</p>

<p><strong>WHEN</strong>: Saturday, May 31st from 3pm-6pm.</p>

<p><strong>WHERE</strong>: Institute of Design, 350 N. LaSalle St, 4th floor, Chicago.  <a href="http://tinyurl.com/4rbmd3" target="_blank">Map</a>.</p>

<p><strong>WHAT</strong>:  A hands-on introduction the the Common Lisp programming language.</p>

<p><strong>Tentative Schedule </strong>(presentations will be 30-60 min)<strong> </strong></p>

<ul><li>Setting up a Lisp Environment (John Quigley): A hands-on
walkthrough of how to setup a Lisp environment, Emacs, and SLIME. There
will be documentation beforehand about steps to take and which packages
to get.</li><li>Lisp Basics and Idioms (Peter Christensen): Lisp syntax, contructs, basic code, idioms and practices.</li><li>Common Lisp condition system (need a volunteer)</li><li>Macros (Craig Luddington): How Lisp lets you write code that writes code that writes code … and why you'd want to do that.</li>
<li>Demos of cool things in Lisp (need volunteers):  showing off both neat and practical things that Lisp can do.</li></ul>

<p>We're looking for volunteers to do the following:</p>

<ul><li>Present on the CL condition system</li><li>Suggest and present on other aspects of CL not listed here that would be suitable for an introductory session</li><li>Walk around and help troubleshoot during the first session about setting up your environment.</li>
</ul>

<p>If you're interested in attending or helping, please <a href="http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/contact-me">email me</a> and include "Intro to Lisp Workshop" at the start of the message.</p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Peter Christensen &lt;<a href="mailto:peter@pchristensen.com">peter@pchristensen.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Fine with me too.&nbsp; I&#39;ll have the recaps up this weekend - they&#39;re mostly written but I was waiting on the date for the workshop before I posted them.<br><br>-Peter<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Craig Ludington &lt;<a href="mailto:cl@craig.upholsters.us" target="_blank">cl@craig.upholsters.us</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>John Quigley writes:<br>
&nbsp;&gt; I&#39;ve tentatively scheduled the first Lisp Workshop for Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 3:00pm at the Institute of Design[1] in downtown Chicago (right by the Clark/Lake El stop). &nbsp;More details to come, but I want to first confirm that this date works with the various volunteers who will be teaching.<br>


<br>
</div>That date is fine with me.<br>
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Craig<br>
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