Lisp Community - Quality tutorials/resources

Question

As many other people interested in learning Lisp, I feel the resources available are not the best for beginners and eventually prevent many new people from learning it. Do you f

Answer 1

There are two popular dialects of Lisp - Common Lisp and Scheme. Both have excellent books/tutorials and implementations available online for free. Beginners can start with Scheme which is simpler. Some resources for learning Scheme:

Free Books:

1. Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum days. (pdf)
2. The Scheme Programming Language.
3. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
4. How To Design Programs

Online communities/resources:

1. The latest Scheme standard.
2. Scheme Cookbook.
3. Scheme Requests for Implementation
4. Scheme Related Research
5. http://www.schemers.org/
6. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/scheme/

A Scheme implementation suitable for beginners is PLT Scheme.

Free Books to learn Common Lisp:

1. Practical Common Lisp
2. On Lisp
3. Common Lisp HyperSpec (Reference)
4. Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation

Online communities/resources for Common Lisp:

1. http://common-lisp.net/
2. CLiki
3. The Common Lisp Directory

Popular Common Lisp implementations: SBCL, CLISP, Clozure CL, Allegro CL