Franz Inc Lisp Community Resources

Educational Resources

(New) Free Lisp Training Videos. Recorded from Franz's Allegro CL Certification Program.
(New) Practical Common Lisp, by Peter Seibel
Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach - Stuart C. Shapiro's book is now available as a free download.
Successful Lisp - David B. Lamkin's book Successful Lisp has recently been published and is now available for purchase from Bookfix.
Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music - Prof. David Cope, noted composer, author and programmer leads participants in creating their own composition and analysis software using Lisp. The Workshop typically occurs in June.
Physics for Game Developers and Virtual Environments - Prof. Robert McGhee offers a Lisp based course for Game Developers that is offered at the Naval Post Graduate School.
Casting SPELs in Lisp - Conrad Barski, M.D. has designed a Lisp tutorial in comic book format that shows how Lisp's unique design makes it such a powerful tool!
How to Learn Lisp and CLOS
The Dynamic Learning Center gives University Professors and Students sample code and learning tools designed to introduce future developers to the power of Common Lisp.
The Common Lisp Cookbook is an online recipe book containing code fragments for many Common Lisp programming tasks.
An Introductory Guide to learning Lisp created by Pascal Costanza.
Online Chat Sessions
ELM-ART, an interactive online Lisp Tutorial created by Dr. Gerhard Weber.
CL/CLOS Compared To Other Languages
White Papers
Basic Lisp Techniques, a comprehensive basic Lisp handbook by David Cooper, Jr., designed to get you coding quickly (100+ pages) available here in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. (If you don't have Acrobat, you can download it from Adobe.)
Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by David S. Touretzky, published in 1990 and now out of print, this excellent introduction is available for free download both in Acrobat PDF and Postscript format.
The Common Lisp Graphics Resource Page is a useful resource for Common Lisp programmers who want to get started in graphics programming.
Marty Hall's Common Lisp page for Johns Hopkins University
Allegro CL Examples and Utilities is a code repository of applications and programs which demonstrate Allegro CL features and non-trivial ways Lisp can be used.
Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp by David Lamkins provides a wonderful overview of Common Lisp for the working programmer.