RICHER@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (Mark Richer) (07/02/86)
Lisp Teachers (or previous learners), I am interested in collecting comments regarding your experiences and preferences with texts for teaching/learning Lisp. The implementation available for the specific course I expect to be teaching is Golden CommonLisp on an IBM-PC, in case you want to factor that into your comments. You might want to think of this in the traditional way, which book(s) would you make required, highly recommended, or optional. Any other comments on teaching Lisp would be of interest. The students in this class will range from undergraduates that are novice programmers majoring in fields outside of CS, Math, or the sciences to CS majors and possibly graduate students. This course is not being taught in a Computer Science Department and little constraints have been placed on me. Hands-on lab sessions are possible as well as lectures. Mark -------