Aaron Feng

Learning Lisp has been a challenge so far. I'm plunging my way through Practical Common Lisp at a decent pace though. Learning Lisp development environment is another story. Since all the hardcore Lisp hackers are all using emacs with slime I figured I would do the same. I have no previous experience with emacs, so I'm simultaneously learning 3 things at once.

One night I came across Maco Baringer's slime video. After I watched the video, all the dots in my head started to connect. In the video, Maco demonstrated the usage of slime while he developed a morse code application. I kept rewinding to figure out the key strokes used. Recently Peter Christensen wrote a transcript for the slime video. This made the video much easier to follow. Christensen also has a transcript for Baringer's Hello World video using Uncommon Web framework.

Besides the transcripts, Christensen is also working on emacs/slime cheat sheet. As a noob learning Lisp, I need all the help I can get.