Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
You come in with a mind full of mush,
and you leave thinking like a computer scientist.
The famous Wizard Book by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. The text of this book is available for free:
| HTML (unofficial) | https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ |
| http://deptinfo.unice.fr/~roy/sicp.pdf | |
| PDF with vector graphics | https://sicpebook.wordpress.com/ |
| Texinfo | https://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/ |
A series of video lectures taught by two of the authors is also available for free, filmed at Hewlett-Packard in July 1986.
Although the book uses Scheme, it is certainly one of the great lisp books.
- A course at Berkeley: CS61A: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- The SICP exercises done in Common Lisp: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/tag/sicp