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@veer66 @sgharms @mark_watson Personally, I also like the following Common #Lisp book quite a lot. I can program, of course, and I already had experience with functional programming languages. But in principle, I like programming books where you don't learn a thousand times what a variable or a loop is, but where you build something practical right from the start. This can be something very simple, but something where you learn a programming language

@veer66 @sgharms @mark_watson bit by bit along the way. When I started programming in the home computer era, the first thing I always programmed on the various computers or Basic variants or other programming languages was a small address management program. It doesn't sound super exciting, but you can learn a lot from it.

By the way, the first project in this book is a small management program (db) for music CDs. I thought that was really great

@veer66 @sgharms @mark_watson You can always expand a management program like this. First you control it via parameters in the shell, then at some point you build a small Ui, perhaps in the shell at first. Later you can then build a web interface or desktop GUI. Of course you need some kind of server from which you can load the data etc.
You can extend a project like this to any depth you want.

@leobm @veer66 @mark_watson great perspective. I started as a tool building sysadmin(instrumentalist)/programmer and this evolution of the db speaks to the joy of what I saw over the years. Thanks.