Nikodemus Siivola nikodemus@random-state.net writes:
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:49:47PM +0200, Mario Mommer wrote:
I've updated the "resources & learning" page. It is here:
I second the textual suggestion Erik made, with the following additions:
- I wouldn't call CL-Cookbook articles "in-depth". They aren't. ;)
:-))
- Apparently the book to for learning CLOS is <forgot-the-name> by Sonya Keene.
Yeah, but it isn't a good one to start learning lisp.
- I'd either leave "Setting Up The Environment" out completely, or do it properly with all the requisite hand-holding. Third alternative might be to outline the various environment options, but that may be a bit overwhelming for a newbie.
Doing the requisite hand-holding means duplicating the installation instructions of each lisp. I thought that for getting started, what I worte there is enough. You install your lisp, fire up emacs, run the inferior lisp, open up a file called whatever.lisp, and there you go. There isn't much else a real newbie needs to know at first - or am I missing something?
- Mention c.l.l. (with link to Google groups)
Oops! One of the many versions I had floating around did have that plus a link to the lisp-newbies list. God knows where that went. Thanks for noticing.
Should I call this page "learning Common Lisp" instead and reshuffle everything?
Yes, I think "learning" might make a better title, but instead of massive resuffling I'd just remove the resource-hub section, *and* the ALU/CLiki links from the top bar (on every page) and put something equivalent as the first paragraph of index.html.
You mean work in the links to alu & cliki into the intro?
I'm planning to integrate this with the rest of the site soon, if nobody objects...
I'm cool with it.
I think I will produce 1 more version of it first.