HOW TO USE IT?

First of all, you have to go into a hypertext browser like Mosaic or Netscape and then go to the URL:

lisp1.html

After that you will see the main interaction point with the tutor, given by the following screen:

Here, you will see a teacher board with all the material that the tutor will cover.

Now, we can point with the mouse to the main topic that you are interested in or that you want to study; such as Data Structures, Basic operation, Basic Input and output, Control Structures, recursion, Arithmetics, sets, the bibliography, Documentation, and at the end (best!) the test. There is no any forced restriction about the way to study the different topics. It is still very open and you will be in charge of selecting it according to your level of experience with LISP. Also you can go directly to the specific function within a main topic by just choosing it.

Basically, all the concepts explained by the tutor consist of:

one explanatory part that give you an overview about the topic.
Examples that make the concept clearer.
An interaction part that allows you to have contact more directly with the LISP language and also gives you feedback that lets you know how you are in a topic right in the moment that you are studying it. Sometimes, like in the invocation part of the exercise, the interaction is guided by the tutor allowing the user to change some part of the exercise. In others, like in the recursive part of the exercise, the user receives a little template of how the exercise will look, giving the user more control of the exercise.

There is also a Test that tries to examine all the points covered in the tutorial and will feedback the student with the results. Most of the questions are multiple choiced, but also there are some in a free format.

villamil @ eecs .tulane.edu