Land of Lisp : learn to program in Lisp, one game at a time! / by Conrad Barski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barski, Conrad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Programming.

Video games.

COMMON LISP (Computer program language).

LISP (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (508 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : No Starch Press, Inc., 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Lisp is a uniquely powerful programming language that, despite its academic reputation, is actually very practical. Land of Lisp brings the language into the real world, teaching readers Lisp by showing them how to write several complete Lisp-based games, including a text adventure, an evolution simulation, and a robot battle. While building these games, readers learn the core concepts of Lisp programming, such as recursion, input/output, object-oriented programming, and macros. And thanks to Lisp's powerful syntax, the example code is short and easy to understand. The book is filled with the

Contents:

Getting started with Lisp

Creating your first Lisp program

Exploring the syntax of Lisp code

Making decisions with conditions

Building a text game engine

Interacting with the world: reading and printing in Lisp

Iambda: a function so important that it deserves its own chapter

Going beyond basic lists

This ain't your daddy's wumpus

Advanced datatypes and generic programming

Looping with the loop command

Printing text with the format function

Working with streams

Let's create a web server!

Functional programming is beautiful

Ramping Lisp up a notch with functional programming

Dice of Doom, a game written in the functional style

The magic of Lisp macros

Domain-specific languages

Lazy programming

Creating a graphical, web-based version of Dice of Doom

Making Dice of Doom more fun.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781593273491

1593273495

OCLC:

830164379