The website totally convinced me. I'm buying the eBook now!
Ditto. And it's so awesome to see the author's whimsy pay off so well, judging by the overall response here.
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Someone else asked this... I'll let you know as soon as I find out.
Please do lets us know about this, I read PDFs on my computers and ePubs on my portable devices. And thank you for the book and the awesome video and comic! :-)
Yes, it'll be free to download a couple of weeks after you buy the PDF.
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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…
Thanks for the reply. I asked about what you are using because I have recently tried doing some drawing with a Wacom graphics tablet and am having trouble (I have one of the cheap ones where you draw on the tablet whilst watching the screen - the disconnect between hand and eye makes it difficult). I'll look at some of the things you mentioned and see about trying them. (thanks again!)
Yeah, I found Wacom tablets to be no good for me, for the reason you describe. The iPad is definitely a better drawing device, as long as you don't care about pressure sensitivity.
(Hope they release a large-screen iPad soon :)
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#84Conrad, absolutely loved your video. My 6yo will pore over your comic and Ill no doubt see land-of-lisp refs crop up in his battle scenes.
This all got me thinking about developing interactive stories and the ideal lisp game development environment...
I hear from people who want to create interactive books and lessons for iPad. I recommend they prototype things in PowerPoint or Keynote first, then hire a developer to turn it into a cocoa app or a HTML5 web app with webkit animations. Its too hard.
If the ideal tool was a web app, you could develop games and interactive lessons for iPad and other tablets directly on the device.
You'd want a DSL for standard slide/rotate/scale animations, and write code in lisp for game logic. This would bypass expense of developing native cocoa apps yet reach nice platforms.
Ideally you'd prototype quickly and be led gently into the best language. I guess mobile is the primary computer for most young people, so would be ideal to take a lisp environment to them.
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Firstly, congratulations on completing the book. Will this book be available for Kindle by any chance?
My understanding is it will appear on the kindle in the near future (though I don't know the process for this 100%)
If your contract with NoStarch permits, my startup (http://fifobooks.com/) could do this for you.
I.e., we could produce a native ebook (not pdf) file for the Kindle, iPad, Nook, Sony, and a bunch of other dedicated e-reader devices.
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#86Hi 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…
Thanks for the book, and the discount. I've never took the time to really learn Lisp, even though I took a class on it in college. Excited to dig in to Land of Lisp!
Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
#87Hi 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…
Congratulations on getting the book out (and for the 30% off you gave me)! My only question so far is about the comic...what's the point of the 3 panels in the training facility? Is the 'hug' joke supposed to be funny?
Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
#88Hi 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…
And you found yourself a happy customer. You had me at balancing weasels on a rake. (Or, well, at the discount. Hard to fight against my poor German genes.)
Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
#89Hi 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…
Congrats on the release. I'm excited to finish reading the book. I just thought you should know, however, that there's a minor mistake (I think) in some of the walkthrough stuff in the pdf. On page 56: > (defun pudding-eater (person) (cond ((eq person 'henry) (setf *arch-enemy* 'stupid-lisp-alien) '(curse you lisp alien – you ate my pudding)) ((eq person 'johnny) (setf *arch-enemy* 'useless-old-johnny) '(i hope you c…
But LISP is immune to bugs!?! What gives??
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#90Sorry for the OT question, but what tools did you use to make that video?