Learning Lisp and artificial intelligence [closed]

Question

This semester at college I have a course for Artificial Intelligence and we are studying Lisp. The problem is that I don't have any functional programming background, but I do know OOP programming (Java, Javascript, PHP).

Can you recommend some good books to get me up to speed on Lisp and artificial intelligence?

Answer 1

These I have found helpful and pretty approachable:

1. Practical Common Lisp - Peter Seibel
2. ANSI Common LISP - Paul Graham

Answer 2

Not to forget the classic "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp" by Peter Norvig. Especially his coding style is very clear and a pleasure to read.