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>"Fundamentals are the psychological entry to a subject, and foundations are the logical entry. Fundamentals must be easy for the novice, while foundations can be hard for the expert. Learning a subject is movement from fundamentals to foundations."
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>- Bruce Mills, Practical Formal Software Engineering
One sure method to begin the journey from fundamentals to foundations in learning Common Lisp is through immediate correction/feedback using the interactive "LispTutor Jr" online by carefully reading the lessons (don't skip any AND do take notes!) and doing the strictly guided / checked exercises, and then completing all of the exercises / projects in the "Land of Lisp" book.
The primary advantages are that both are used at university and that LispTutor has been proven to work.
>The original LispTutor was developed at Carnegie Mellon University by Reiser, Anderson, Corbett, Farrell and others. Lisptutor Jr is a simplified version of the system, but it is still used by many people interested in learning the classic language for Artificial Intelligence: LISP.
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>About LispTutor Jr
As quoted above, the original LispTutor interactive training system was created at Carnegie Mellon (home of CMUCL from which SBCL is derived). It has been used there, and at other schools, to teach Common Lisp. Its contents are derived from the insightful "Essential LISP" book that was the result of AI research in determining what it takes to teach students who've never been exposed to Lisp how to program in it competently.
The special focus of the "Essential Lisp" book and the LispTutor is Iteration and Recursion, since those are often the most difficult topics for students to understand and internalize well. In fact, they cover things that no other Lisp book I've seen does, such as providing principles to help determine what the three primary variables in a particular Iterative structure should be initialized to. That alone helps reduce student error by avoiding over iterating or under iterating.