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AutoLISP to Visual LISP: Design Solutions for AutoCAD 2000 adopts the designer's point-of-view to instruct readers with no prior experience in the basics of AutoLISP, Diesel and Visual LISP programming. Emphasis is on developing AutoCAD 2000 into a more powerful design application, with numerous design-based programming examples featured throughout the book, to put users on the fast-track to writing their own time-saving and productivity-enhancing programs.A "must-have" how-to and reference guide to optimizing the AutoCAD 2000 design environment, this book also covers topics such as ActiveX, object-oriented programming, reactors, the WindowsÖ registry, programming standards, date and time issues and more!Add this to your library today.

AutoLISP to Visual LISP: Design Solutions for AutoCAD 2000 devotes an entire section to the novice programmer, explaining in detail the theory required to write a specialized computer program.Readers are first introduced to the basics of programming with AutoLISP. After gaining confidence using this relatively simple programming language, readers are then challenged to enhance their skills by using Diesel to alter the AutoCAD status line and DCL to incorporate graphics into their programs to make them user-friendly. Finally, readers are exposed to Visual LISP (presented as an extension of AutoLISP) to provide them with editing and debugging features, as well as other tools that can be used to create AutoLISP programs.

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Please Do not Waste Your Time and Money
This book is of zero educational value. You will not find it useful. Some scattered information without any reasonable relationship. It is a waste of time and money. I am not quite sure why they have decided to publish such a useless book. You cannot even use it as a reference.

Thank you so much for this book!
This book finally brought Descriptive Geometry down to my level - beginner. I was amazed at how this book managed to explain the subject matter in a simple, straight forward way. And the illustrations are great! I took Descriptive Geometry several years ago and did not complete the course because I could not understand what the instructor or the other D.G. textbook (I don't remember the title) were talking about. Now, I wonder why the other book did not say, and illustrate, what this book covers so effortlessly.

Save yourself 50 odd dollars
I found this book to be a jumble of disconnected terms.After reading the first two chapters I thought the rest of the book can go nowhere but up.I was wrong.The rest of the bookmaintained its confusing presentations.Even the supplied disk was as confusing as the book.If your looking to get into LISP programming STAY AWAY from this book.I guess I will spend another 30 or 40 dollars and try another LISP programming book.

Beware of this book
If you are looking for a book that will help you understand Visual Lisp - this is NOT it. Page after page of screen shots with a line or two of unhelpful text - you would be much better off just using AutoCAD help. Maybe the next book on VL will do more than scratch the surface.

Completely Phenomenal
This by far is the preeminent of its kind. The immeasurable amount of detail that the author covers, leaves no doubt in the readers mind that every facet has been covered. This book is truly a assertion that the author shows no evidence of diffidence. I highly advocate the purchase of this book! ... Read more

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This text provides an introductory-level overview of artificial intelligence (AI). It features clear presentation of principles integrated with short, workable programs which are designed to help students to learn by experimentation and to develop an intuitive understanding of the subject. The book features: expression of AI theory in programs written with common LISP, the established standard for the field; new chapters on common sense reasoning and neural networks; new sections on global variables, LISP structures, LISP association lists, iterative deepening, constructing decision trees, genetic algorithms and embedded AI; expanded coverage of expert systems; updated programming style in example programs, plus many new example programs; and coverage of additional Common LISP features. ... Read more

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A must
The 2nd edition is a real complete book on AI elements.
The book is for undergraduate or first year graduate, and
it is not required a full background in calculs or algebra.
All chapters require a pratice works on lisp example, in order
to be most effective.
Tanimoto written lisp examples prior to the language standardization,
so source codes could be a little re-worked.
Although all text example are based on lisp, it would be easy
to applay theory to other programming language as C/C++, tcl/tk, etc.
Finnaly, the book is "a must" for people real interested on AI.

VERY GOOD BOOK, except...
I learned to programming Common Lisp using Tanimoto's book (in conjunction with Winston Horn's "Lisp"). The book's writing is superb, and the examples are very well thought out and implemented.

One word of caution: the book was written before the complete standardization of Common Lisp. So some of the functions, such as those specific to I/O and FEXPR will not work on current Common Lisp implementations (such as GCL). But all of these functions can be worked around easily.

I'll still give this book a five star. The book is particularly good for self-study. So I recommend it to any AI enthusiast.

A very broad treatment of AI Fundamentals
Tanimoto provides a very broad treatment of AI techniques.As such dicussions are often brief.There is an outstanding section on Computer vision.Knowledge representation is also well covered.The author presents highly idiomatic examples of Lisp code.This book would be ideal for anyone not familiar with AI techniques who wants to do AI research and/or development. ... Read more

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Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard document ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (R2004), (formerly X3.226-1994 (R1999)). Developed to standardize the divergent variants of Lisp (though mainly the MacLisp variants) which predated it, it is not an implementation but rather a language specification. Several implementations of the Common Lisp standard are available, including free and open source software and proprietary products. Common Lisp is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language. It supports a combination of procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming paradigms. As a dynamic programming language, it facilitates evolutionary and incremental software development, with iterative compilation into efficient run-time programs. Common Lisp includes CLOS, an object system that supports multimethods and method combinations. It is extensible through standard features such as Lisp macros (compile-time code rearrangement accomplished by the program itself) and reader macros (extension of syntax to give special meaning to characters reserved for users for this purpose). ... Read more

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Warning
Best delete this code.

Very poor value for money here.BIG price for Wikipedia downloads.If Kama exists, the three "editors" will be edited out of the earth's biosphere. Pleae do not fund evil.

Wikipedia is on the net for free.

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A step-by-step approach provides practical, easy-to-follow instruction for mastering the AutoLISP programming language. Content ranges from basic to advanced programming techniques and includes all AutoLISP functions through Release 14. Complete instructions describe how to create useful and productive routines and programs. ... Read more

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A must to get started in AutoLisp
I had been working with Autocad for awhile and I always wanted
get to the next level: Customization. All the material
I had researched was for intermediate to advanced levels.
I needed something to get me started and would reward me by
allowing me to get a simple function to work. If you are new
to programming this is the book. Once you take off and get a
better understanding you can always get more information from other sources.
Do your homework and this book will get you there.

AutoLISP Programming Principles and Techniques Rawls/Hagen
I amAutoCAD Programming instructor at a technical college and have used this book for several semesters.
The book is a good reference reference with a good DCL section however I feel it is lacking in "real world" applications.
Also it needs to be updates to include visual lisp functions.

Where are the solutions
While I found this book very helpful in introducing me to AutoLISP and the exercises are educational & informative, I have two major problems with this book. First, the solutions to the exercises don't exists; there are several exercises I was unable to do successfully after various attempts and there was no solution to help me understand what I was doing wrong. Second, there is no way to contact the authors when the above mentioned situation arises. If they write further additions I hope they will address these issues. I would not recommend this book to a beginner, but it might be helpful to intermediate or advanced users.

Out of the Classroom
I took AutoLISP at Austin Community College and was given instructural materials. Although good, they were not as in depth as I needed them to be. The instructor used this book as a reference and recommended it to me as I do to others. It is a wonderful book full of information far beyond what I learned in class and has the necessary group codes and functions as well as other invaluable information listed in the appendix.

Great Intro book
I taught myself AutoLISP from this book. I was not a seasoned programmer when I started, only a seasoned ACAD user. I had always wanted to learn AutoLISP, but the AutoLISP tutorial within ACAD--the garden path with tiles--made me feel stupid because I couldn't learn from it. This book was what I was looking for. It starts simple, so I gained confidence as I went. It moves at the right pace, and it covers not so easy concepts, like LAMBDA and MAPCAR. By the end I felt very confident with AutoLISP. Today, it is literally within arm's reach as I write this review. I highly recommend it as a way to learn AutoLISP. ... Read more

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Chapters: Lisp, Symbolics, Lisp Machine, Common Lisp, S-Expression, Kent Pitman, Bill Schelter, Gerald Jay Sussman, Cdr Coding, Acl2, Paul Graham, Richard Greenblatt, Richard Stallman, Ai Winter, John Mccarthy, Lisp Machines, Fexpr, Read-Eval-Print Loop, Hal Abelson, X3j13, Erik Naggum, Guy L. Steele, Jr., Richard P. Gabriel, Cons, M-Expression, Advice, Car and Cdr, Tom Knight, Big Ball of Mud, Greenspun's Tenth Rule, System Image, Lispworks, Append, Canonical S-Expressions, Ti Explorer, Docstring, Bee Lisp, Scieneer Common Lisp, Macintosh Common Lisp, Commonloops, Prototype Verification System, Corman Common Lisp, the Art of the Metaobject Protocol, Little B, Mod Lisp, Lisp in Small Pieces, S-1 Lisp, le Lisp. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 253. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard document ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (R2004), (formerly X3.226-1994 (R1999)). From the ANSI Common Lisp standard the Common Lisp HyperSpec has been derived for use with web browsers. Common Lisp was developed to standardize the divergent variants of Lisp (though mainly the MacLisp variants) which predated it, thus it is not an implementation but rather a language specification. Several implementations of the Common Lisp standard are available, including free and open source software and proprietary products. Common Lisp is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language. It supports a combination of procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming paradigms. As a dynamic programming language, it facilitates evolutionary and incremental software development, with iterative compilation into efficient run-time programs. Common Lisp includes CLOS, an object system that supports multimethods and ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6068 ... Read more

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This is the first complete and definitive reference to Common LISP, a popular computer language often used by artificial intelligence programmers. This is an alphabetical reference, which includes essays, and is for serious LISP programmers. ... Read more

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"With this book you can learn to write good programs that do interesting things right off the bat," writes software developer Julie Sussman. "This is the introductory [programming] text that I wish I had had"Scheme - a simple, learnable dialect of LISP has emerged as a popular educational language as well as a serious tool for producing applications and system software. Programming in Scheme provides an accessible introduction to Scheme that assumes no previous programming experience and covers all the basics of the language and many advanced topics as well. It gets readers on the machine early, teaches language structure and programming technique through extended examples an exercises, and emphasizes debugging throughout.Chapters are organized as a series of groups, or "layers," each of which advances the reader to a new level in Scheme. The first layer (chapters 2-7) introduces Scheme procedures - how to define, use, and debug them. The second layer (chapters 8-10) discusses lists and subprocedures. The third layer (chapters 11-15) provides a more elaborate and powerful model of the Scheme language. These last chapters also explore the notion of first-class procedure objects, one of the most fascinating ideas in computer science. Appendixes contain an Edwin mini-manual, answers to selected exercises, references and bibliography.Michael Eisenberg is a Ph.D candidate in Computer Science at MIT. Harold Abelson is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. ... Read more

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This book deals mainly with means of creating automated workstations (or CAD systems) based on the AutoCAD system. The problem of adapting a workplace to fit the concrete plans of the designer from a number of angles is analyzed, and a detailed description of the AutoLISP language is included. Methods for working in a Visual LISP environment, which allows you to compile and debug programs written in AutoLISP, are provided. And methods for creating user menus including pull-down menus, context menus, on-screen menus, and toolbars and for planning dialog boxes in applications are thoroughly examined.

KEY FEATURES - Discusses typical designing and programming tasks of AutoCAD developers, and provides essential problem-solving information and useable example codes - Presents a detailed review of the AutoLISP programming language - Uses Diesel language to create all necessary control elements for user menus - Includes practical, concise, real-world advice and examples ... Read more

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Going back to the bookstore for my refund
I suppose if you have a Ph.D, you are expected to write at least one text book to add to your portfolio and make a few bucks on the side- that kind of mentality was obviously prevalent when the author wrote this book. Dry text and sparse examples litter the text. The book title is misleading - it calls itself a 'developer's guide to visual lisp' when in fact, 36 pages (less than 10% of the book) is dedicated to that topic. Almost 200 pages of the book goes over the main AutoLisp functions - but hey, I've got an AutoCAD 14 book that explains that topic better. The books describes the author as a 'best selling author of a number of AutoCAD books'. If thats true, those books never made it to the North American market - now I know why. And finally, WHERE'S THE CD? No CD ever came with my copy of the book - maybe because I purchased an earlier printing. All in all,a major disappointment.

Going back to the bookstore for my refund
I suppose if you have a Ph.D, you are expected to write at least one text book to add to your portfolio and make a few bucks on the side - that kind of mentality was painfully prevalent when the author wrote this book. Dry text and sparse examples litter the text. The book title is misleading - it calls itself a 'developer's guide to visual lisp' when in fact, 36 pages (less than 10% of the book) is dedicated to that topic. Almost 200 pages of the book goes over the main AutoLisp functions - but hey, I've got an AutoCAD 14 book that explains that topic better. The book describes the author as a 'best selling author of a number of AutoCAD books'. If thats true, those books never made it to the North American market - now I know why. And finally, WHERE'S THE CD? No CD ever came with my copy of the book - maybe because I purchased an earlier printing. All in all, a major disappointment. ... Read more

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Chapters: Lisp, Perl, Python, Mumps, Smalltalk, Ruby, Logo, Tcl, Self, Common Lisp, Objective-C, Rebol, Squeak, Windows Powershell, Mobile Development, Supercollider, Oz, Magik, Nil, Newlisp, Runtime Revolution, Keykit, Python for S60, Arc, Pharo, *lisp, Geometric Description Language, Incr Tcl, Neko, Mdl, Multilisp, F-Script, Picolisp, Ferite, Tcl/java, Portable Standard Lisp, Euler, Strongtalk, Smalltalk Yx, Eulisp, S-Lang, Cecil, Monkeybars Framework, Tcllib, Steptalk, Metal, Bistro, Itk, Little Smalltalk, Flow Java, Miis, Cel, Bbn Lisp. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 378. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular amongst programmers. Larry Wall continues to oversee development of the core language, and its upcoming version, Perl 6. Perl borrows features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed. The language provides powerful text processing facilities without the arbitrary data length limits of many contemporary Unix tools, facilitating easy manipulation of text files. It is also used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, applications that require database access and CGI programming on the Web. Perl is nicknamed "the Swiss Army chainsaw of programming languages" due to its flexibility and adaptability. Larry Wall began work on Perl in 1987, while working as a programmer at Unisys, and released version 1.0 to the comp.sources.misc newsgroup on December 18, 1987. The language expanded rapidly over the next few years. Perl 2, re...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23939 ... Read more

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Culled from Cadalyst magazine's most popular column--"Hot Tip Harry"--the information in this book will increase every reader's AutoCAD efficiency. Included are AutoLISP routines, dialog box routines, batch patterns, menu macros, blocks, and much more. Contributed by more than 150 people, the tips in this book are not only time-saving and instructive, they are also models of good programming practice. ... Read more

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"Explore the art of programming with EdScheme! Scheme is a simple, elegant, language Lisp with superlative expressive power. The EdScheme implementation is a fast and efficient incremental optimizing complier that provides a friendly and convenient interactive programming enviornment." ... Read more