I am taking my wife to the movies, but I will be back in a few hours to answer questions.
This is the third edition of my book "Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon." I removed some of the older material from the earlier editions and added application examples for using Common Lisp clients for: MongoDB, Solr, CouchDB, and relational databases. I also added a chapter using my Natural Language Processing (NLP) library and a short chapter on information gathering.
Since this is the third addition, could you please point us at some reviews for the first two additions?
$3 is a no brainer and you should probably charge more, but the cost of time invested in reading is what is valuable.
One question I have for authors is "What book would you recommend over your own book?" I ask this because I once met an author of many technical books going back 20+ years, but I was supremely disappointed when I discovered that he wasn't familiar with some of the most highly regarded books in computing like The Little Schemer, K&R, etc. It's clear from your books, that you're not clueless like he was, but I'd still love to hear what books you look up to as an author.
I suggest that you grab a free copy of the previous edition and look at that for a few minutes.
Other Lisp books I like: Peter Norvig's first book for Morgan Kaufman, "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp" and I rather like my first Springer-Verlag Lisp book. Norvig's book is awesome.
It would be nice if the author provided some sample chapters so we could find out a bit more about the content and writing style before buying the book. Yes, I see there's a money-back guarantee, but I'd rather not provide my personal details to the publisher just to look at a few pages of a book I may not be interested in reading.
It's only $3. I'm going to buy it even though I have no time to read the whole book. The author is a good writer and I love his blog... I only hope he will write a Clojure book one day!
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 24.2 ms ] threadThis is the third edition of my book "Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon." I removed some of the older material from the earlier editions and added application examples for using Common Lisp clients for: MongoDB, Solr, CouchDB, and relational databases. I also added a chapter using my Natural Language Processing (NLP) library and a short chapter on information gathering.
$3 is a no brainer and you should probably charge more, but the cost of time invested in reading is what is valuable.
One question I have for authors is "What book would you recommend over your own book?" I ask this because I once met an author of many technical books going back 20+ years, but I was supremely disappointed when I discovered that he wasn't familiar with some of the most highly regarded books in computing like The Little Schemer, K&R, etc. It's clear from your books, that you're not clueless like he was, but I'd still love to hear what books you look up to as an author.
Other Lisp books I like: Peter Norvig's first book for Morgan Kaufman, "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp" and I rather like my first Springer-Verlag Lisp book. Norvig's book is awesome.