&gt; what do you do to learn CL?<p>The best thing I&#x27;ve done is watch a video on making a reddit clone in Lisp. I couldn&#x27;t get the libraries to work, but I plan on using other libraries to do the same thing either tomorrow or the next day. It&#x27;s made me realize that I really need to start walking through other people&#x27;s code.  
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;138249727" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;138249727</a><p>Google&#x27;s LISP koans which is ~30 exercises where you complete the code and make the tests pass. Covers everything from mapcar to multi-threading.  
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;lisp-koans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;lisp-koans</a><p>I&#x27;m currently on Ch. 9&#x2F;32 of Peter Seigel&#x27;s &quot;Practical Common Lisp&quot;. I find the book to be a much better resource after already being familiar with the topics covered. It does a great job of going into the nuances and gotchas of the language, but because is so much more text than code, it&#x27;s hard for me to appreciate all of those little details if I&#x27;m still trying to grasp the fundamentals of the topic. 
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gigamonkeys.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gigamonkeys.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;</a><p>I write all the code I see with a pencil and paper (including all of those koans). I read a block of code and then try to rewrite it from memory.<p>Currently using vim. Haven&#x27;t gotten around yet to using a live environment.<p><pre><code>  Future resources:
    Paul Graham&#x27;s &quot;Roots of Lisp&quot;  
    Paul Graham&#x27;s &quot;On Lisp&quot;  
    Build a Lisp compiler  
    SICP  
    Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
    Upgrade my editor
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Yeah, there&#x27;s a lot I want to go through. It&#x27;s gonna take me a few months just to go through all of the resources I have bookmarked so far. And I haven&#x27;t even started looking for code that I want to read. End goal is to master Lisp.