Lisp Programming Language – Full Course for Beginners
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In this Lisp for beginners course, @the-lisper will teach you why this elegant programming language has influenced computer science for over 60 years. Lisp's elegant approach to handling code as data, combined with its powerful macro system and functional programming paradigms, offers developers uni...
In this Lisp for beginners course, @the-lisper will teach you why this elegant programming language has influenced computer science for over 60 years. Lisp's elegant approach to handling code as data, combined with its powerful macro system and functional programming paradigms, offers developers unique insights into program architecture that remain relevant and influential across modern languages like Python, JavaScript, and Rust. ❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp ⭐️ Contents ⭐️ - 0:00:00 Common Lisp #1 - Installation - 0:06:45 Common Lisp #2 - Playing with the REPL - 0:13:04 Common Lisp #3 - Local variables and branching - 0:28:42 Common Lisp #4 - Looping with dotimes and do - 0:39:17 Common Lisp #5 - What are lists? - 0:48:47 Common Lisp: 4 ways to build lists - 0:56:28 Common Lisp: Introduction to macros (for beginners) - 1:08:10 Common lisp: macro vs functions (for beginners) - 1:18:00 Common LISP: Destructuring and more! - 1:24:23 Getting started with packages in Common LISP - 1:32:00 Prevent Macro Name Conflict with (gensym) - 1:36:32 Mastering Inheritance and Polymorphism with CLOS: An Introduction - 1:42:12 Mastering Inheritance and Polymorphism with CLOS: Multi-methods - 1:47:21 Common Lisp Debugging: Essential Tips and Techniques - 1:54:51 Exploring the Condition System of Common Lisp - 2:04:53 Mastering Built-in Types in Common Lisp (or how I got 3x faster execution with the same algorithm) - 2:13:13 Improve Common Lisp Code Clarity With Better Dictionary Literal - 2:21:30 Manual Memory Management in Common Lisp with CFFI - 2:28:29 Closures in Common Lisp, when CLOS Is Too Much - 2:36:08 Tail Recursion With Common Lisp, Do or Don't? - 2:41:08 Common Lisp: defvar vs defparameter - 2:46:45 Series: A Functional Approach To Common Lisp - 2:52:40 Haskell-Like Type System In Common Lisp With Coalton - 2:59:14 The Loop Macro in Common Lisp: Not Lispy but Convenient - 3:06:58 Circular list with Common Lisp 🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters: 👾 Drake Milly 👾 Ulises Moralez 👾 Goddard Tan 👾 David MG 👾 Matthew Springman 👾 Claudio 👾 Oscar R. 👾 jedi-or-sith 👾 Nattira Maneerat 👾 Justin Hual -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news
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