Professional Track Suggested Chapter List

Skim for basics:

• Chapter 3 - Essential Lisp in Twelve Lessons
• Chapter 4 - Mastering the Essentials
• Chapter 5 - Introducing Iteration
• Chapter 6 - Deeper into Structures

Read for new concepts:

• Chapter 7 - A First Look at Objects as Fancy Structures
• Chapter 8 - Lifetime and Visibility
• Chapter 9 - Introducing Error Handling and Non-Local Exits
• Chapter 11 - Destructive Modification
• Chapter 12 - Mapping Instead of Iteration
• Chapter 13 - Still More Things You Can Do with Sequences
• Chapter 14 - Can Objects Really Behave Themselves?
• Chapter 15 - Closures
• Chapter 17 - Not All Comparisons are Equal
• Chapter 18 - Very Logical, IndeedŠ
• Chapter 19 - Streams
• Chapter 20 - Macro Etiquette
• Chapter 21 - Fancy Tricks with Function and Macro Arguments
• Chapter 23 - To Err is Expected; To Recover, Divine
• Chapter 24 - FORMAT Speaks a Different Language

Learn the environment and tools:

• Chapter 10 - How to Find Your Way Around, Part 1
• Chapter 16 - How to Find Your Way Around, Part 2
• Chapter 22 - How to Find Your Way Around, Part 3
• Chapter 26 - Put on a Happy Face: Interface Builders
• Chapter 27 - A Good Editor is Worth a Thousand Keystrokes
• Chapter 28 - Practical Techniques for Programming

Additional topics:

• Chapter 25 - Connecting Lisp to the Real World
• Chapter 29 - I Thought it was Your Turn to Take Out the Garbage
• Chapter 30 - Helpful Hints for Debugging and Bug-Proofing
• Chapter 31 - Handling Large Projects in Lisp
• Chapter 32 - Dark Corners and Curiosities
• Chapter 33 - Where to Go Next
• Chapter 34 - Lisp History, or: Origins of Misunderstandings
• Appendix A - Lisp System Feature Comparison
• Appendix B - Successful Lisp Applications