Hi Conrad - glad to see this available now - I saw your preview at the DC HN Meetup. I love all the art!
Conrad, I also met you at the DC meetup. Congrats!
Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
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Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
#62This has set the bar very high for Lisp book marketing. I am stunned. My plans for a Clojure Lucha libre exhibition look lame by comparison. I need a bowl of parentheses to help me think.
Hi fogus -Sorry I couldn't make it to Clojure Conj... liked your slides.
My philosophy of marketing is that you need to do something different that no one else has done before to attract attention. There wasn't a programming book with a music video yet, so I exploited that fact :)
But of course, there's still plenty other ideas that could be used to market other books/sites...
Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
#63I'm learning LISP through this book, and it's fun! On p.42, when explaining the c*r functions, I found it easier to just read the "sequence" right-to-left. For example: (cadadr '((peas carrots tomatoes) (pork beef chicken) duck)) BEEF Read as "rest, first, rest, first" of the cons cells, where "a" means "first" and "d" means "rest of the cons cell(s)". Aside: I am now beginning to appreciate Clojure more. :P
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Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
#64That video just made my day - awesome! Can't wait to get the book. I also realised when browsing the Amazon page that the author is the same guy who wrote 'casting spels' (http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html) which was also great.
If your reading this Conrad do you mind me asking you about your art work? It's, hands down, some of the best cartoon drawing I've seen on the web. I'd love to know what tools you use to do the drawing and make the animations, and what process you go through when developing them.
Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
#65Hi HNers- I'm Conrad (aka drcode) the author of said book. Thanks guys for helping build the buzz around LOL! (I should also thank pg for getting me into this stuff in the first place.) I'll be lurking in this thread today and tomorrow... feel free to post any questions about the book or about Lisp in general and I will answer them. Here's the only coupon code currently for the book. I'm posting it exclusively on HN…
Conrad, this was awesome! Excellent work! Ordering...
Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
#66This has set the bar very high for Lisp book marketing. I am stunned. My plans for a Clojure Lucha libre exhibition look lame by comparison. I need a bowl of parentheses to help me think.
Hi fogus -Sorry I couldn't make it to Clojure Conj... liked your slides. My philosophy of marketing is that you need to do something different that no one else has done before to attract attention. There wasn't a programming book with a music video yet, so I exploited that fact :) But of course, there's still plenty other ideas that could be used to market other books/sites...
You're doing a great job. I can't wait to see what you come up with next. I hope to see you at a future Captial Area Clojure UG (http://www.meetup.com/Cap-Clug/). Do you think you would be up for discussing the Clojure-bits (well, all and any bits are just as good too) of your book one day?
Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
#67Been waiting for this book for a long time, glad to finally see it out. Already bought my copy, will be downloading it tonight to start working through it.
Congratulations on finally getting it out! :)
Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
#68That video just made my day - awesome! Can't wait to get the book. I also realised when browsing the Amazon page that the author is the same guy who wrote 'casting spels' ( http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html ) which was also great. If your reading this Conrad do you mind me asking you about your art work? It's, hands down, some of the best cartoon drawing I've seen on the web. I'd love to know what tools you use t…
Seriously? Best cartoon drawing on the web? I doubt that :)
I used to do all the artwork in ink and then scan it. Now I do it all on my iPad with SketchBook Pro (took me a while to figure out how to get decent quality this way- At first, I didn't think decent drawing on an iPad was possible)
The animation was all done by importing bitmap artwork into Toon Boom animation. It's a cheesy Windows program (i.e. save your work every 30 minutes, or else...) but is feature rich.
Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
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Hi fogus -Sorry I couldn't make it to Clojure Conj... liked your slides. My philosophy of marketing is that you need to do something different that no one else has done before to attract attention. There wasn't a programming book with a music video yet, so I exploited that fact :) But of course, there's still plenty other ideas that could be used to market other books/sites...
You're doing a great job. I can't wait to see what you come up with next. I hope to see you at a future Captial Area Clojure UG ( http://www.meetup.com/Cap-Clug/ ). Do you think you would be up for discussing the Clojure-bits (well, all and any bits are just as good too) of your book one day?
Yeah, I was there last month- Will try to come again tomorrow.
Happy to talk about Lisp/Clojure anytime. (with a little notice)
Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
#70I'm excited to finally be getting the book...I just wish I had read comic books as a kid so that I didn't have to struggle with picking up the proper 'comic reading flow' in my thirties ;-) (BTW, Conrad, I think you meant to say 'geezer' instead of 'geyser' in the comic adapted from your epilogue...?) I'm hoping I can use the book to teach lisp to some junior high kids in a disadvantaged youth program. Is it appropri…
Thanks- I think I accidentally used an old bitmap- That typo is fixed in the book.
I'm not sure the book can really take someone from zero programming experience and teach them Lisp- It assumes at least some programming background. It would be fine for junior high kids if they already know a bit of programming, but I suspect they may not.