BestTechVideos: Category Lisp Videos

Video Lectures: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

scoundrel — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:04:06 GMT

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has been MIT's introductory pre-professional computer science subject since 1981. It emphasizes the role of computer languages as vehicles for expressing knowledge and it presents basic principles of abstraction and modularity, together with essential techniques for designing and implementing computer languages. This course has had a worldwide impact on computer science curricula over the past two decades. The accompanying textbook by Hal Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman is available for purchase from the MIT Press, which also provides a freely available on-line version of the complete textbook.

These twenty video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman are a complete presentation of the course, given in July 1986 for Hewlett-Packard employees, and professionally produced by Hewlett-Packard Television. The videos have been used extensively in corporate training at Hewlett-Packard and other companies, as well as at several universities and in MIT short courses for industry.

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Practical Common Lisp

scoundrel — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:56:42 GMT

Google TechTalks May 10, 2006 Peter Seibel ABSTRACT In the late 1920's linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf hypothesized that the thoughts we can think are largely determined by the language we speak. In his essay "Beating the Averages" Paul Graham echoed this notion and invented a hypothetical language, Blub, to explain why it is so hard for programmers to appreciate programming language features that aren't present in their own favorite language. Does the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis hold for computer languages? Can you be a great software architect if you only speak Blub? Doesn't Turing equivalence imply that language choice is just another implementation detail? Yes, no, and no says Peter Seibel, language lawyer (admitted, at various times, to the Perl, Java, and Common Lisp bars) and author of the award-winning book _Practical Common Lisp_. In his talk, Peter will discuss how our choices of programming language influences and shapes our pattern languages and the architectures we can, or are likely to, invent. He will also discuss whether it's sufficient to merely broaden your horizons by learning different programming languages or whether you must actually use them.

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Lisp Movies: Episode 2: (Re)writing Reddit in Lisp is 20 minutes and 100 lines

scoundrel — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:43:47 GMT

This movie is a tutorial on building web applications using KPAX, implementing a prototype clone of Reddit, sort of anyway.

We show how to use the KPAX Common Lisp Web Application Framework to implement an example that is quite similar to Reddit: a collection of links is presented, sorted by points and sorted chronologically, a form allows for new links to be submitted and links can be voted up or down. We show how to interactively debug web applications. Finally we add a stylesheet to give our little application a better look (thanks to Nicky Peeters). Furthermore we show how Common Lisp allows you to write elegant code, elegantly: flexibly re-using similar code fragments, as well as developing and testing incrementally. Source code for this example: either the syntax colored HTML version for viewing, or the raw LISP code.

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Lisp Movies: Episode 1: HTTP Client and Server

scoundrel — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:41:28 GMT

This movie is about using an HTTP Client and Server in Common Lisp.

S-HTTP-CLIENT is used to access a small HTML page from Apache, much like curl does. S-HTTP-SERVER is used to host the same document root as Apache from Lisp, including our small HTML page. We also show how to interact with the LispWorks IDE on Mac OS X: we explore source code, use the inspector, set a breakpoint, use the stepper and even debug running processes.

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