Common Lisp

Full Common Lisp course — 57 topics from the basics to advanced use.

Lessons

• Classes and Instances
• Generic Functions and Methods
• Inheritance and Multiple Dispatch
• Method Combination
• Object Initialization and Printing
• The Meta-Object Protocol
• Conditions and Handlers
• Restarts
• Warnings, Signals and Debugging Workflows
• Types and Declarations
• Performance Optimization
• Threads and Parallelism
• The Foreign Function Interface
• Images and Executables
• Introduction to Common Lisp
• Installation, Implementations and the Development Environment
• The REPL, Expressions and Evaluation
• Numbers
• Characters and Strings
• Variables: Global, Local and Special
• Conditionals and Equality
• Functions
• Lists and Cons Cells
• Association Lists, Property Lists and Trees
• Arrays and Vectors
• Hash Tables
• The Sequence Functions
• Structures
• Symbols and Keywords
• Utilities
• Regular Expressions, JSON and Data Formats
• Web Development
• Databases
• Command-Line Applications and Scripting
• GUIs and Graphics
• Testing
• Debugging and Profiling
• Documentation, Style and Project Layout
• Deployment and CI
• Advanced Topics
• History, Implementations and Best Practices
• Appendices: Projects, Interview Questions, Cheat Sheet & Study Plan
• Iteration: dolist, dotimes, do
• The loop Macro
• Higher-Order Functions and Closures
• Multiple Values and Destructuring
• Non-Local Exits
• Formatted Output with format
• Macro Basics
• Advanced Macros
• The Reader and Reader Macros
• Compilation, eval-when and the Evaluation Model
• Packages
• ASDF Systems
• Quicklisp, Qlot, ocicl and Libraries
• Streams, Files and Pathnames
• Course Overview