The Scheme programming language

The Scheme Programming Language by R. Kent Dybvig is very much worth reading after you finish SICP. Truly the same caliber as K&R's C Programming Language, and more up-to-date (R6RS). The earlier exercises aren't too tricky (except call/cc headaches), but the final chapter has some good meaty Scheme projects that will teach you a ton. It's free online: https://scheme.com/tspl4/

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…ms, operating systems, frameworks, industry commentary, business/startup-related, etc. Below are my favorites (in no particular order), what other "greats" am I missing? The Art of Computer Programming (three volumes + fascicles) - Knuth (aka TAOCP) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Abelson and Sussman (aka SICP, aka The Wizard Book) Introduction to Algorithms - Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein (aka CLRS) Design Patterns - Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides The C Programming Language - Kernighan, Ritchie The C++ Programming Language - Stroustrup The Scheme Programming Language - Dybvig Practical Common LISP - Seibel Programming Perl - Wall, Christiansen and Orwant ANSI Common Lisp - Graham Refactoring - Fowler UML Distilled - Fowler Introduction to the Theory of Computation - Sisper Information Theory, Inference, and Learni…

… ). Also, I've recently gotten back into lisp once again myself--although this time I am going the scheme route--and I am currently reading through R. Kent Dybvig's book The Scheme Programming Language and I'm finding it to be a truly excellent book and it is also free online here http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/ . And of course make sure you take a look at the Arc tutorial ( http://ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt ) and the blog.arc and news.arc source code as they will have you up and running with a Lisp powered website in no time. Anyway, good luck with your studies, I think the rewards are well worth the effort. I can honestly say no matter how long I've been away from lisp I always find myself going back and loving it even more each time.