CHANGELOG

2022-09-05

• Moved Exercise 1.1.8, "Configuring Your Development Environment" to Preface, revised, and added a new section on working from the command-line
• Incremented Preface part numbers appropriately
• Reformatted Preface titles

2022-09-02

• Added full FAQ from old LLTHW web-app, revised as necessary to reflect migration to GitBook for GitLab Pages, and moved to more prominent separate document from title page

2022-09-01

• Normalized use of tense in the CHANGELOG
• Chapter 1.4, "Lists and List Operations"
  • Revised Exercise 1.4.2, restructuring into separate "In the REPL and What You Should See" subsections

2022-08-31

• Updated README.md for the LLTHW source-control repository

2022-08-30

• Chapter 1.4, "Lists and List Operations"
  • Revised Exercise 1.4.1, restructuring into separate "In the REPL" and "What You Should See" subsections the way LxTHW books are supposed to be
  • Split all exercises into separate documents and adjusted Markdown formatting accordingly
  • Renamed Exercise 1.4.10 from "Push and Pop" to "Stacks"
  • Renamed Exercise 1.4.11 from "Pop" to "PUSH and POP"
• Update TODO list
  • Reformatted as an unordered list because the version of GitBook for Gitlab Pages doesn't support Markdown checklists like the latest hosted GitBook platform does
  • Removed entry for Chapter 1.4
• Updated TOC to reflect structural changes to Chapter 1.4
• Added "About the Author" section to title page
• Updated "Recent Changes" section of title page to point readers to this CHANGELOG and the TODO list
• Reformatted list of past contributors to the LLTHW project as its own section of the title page

2022-08-29

• Exercise 1.1.8, "Configuring Your Development Environment"
  • Revised subsection on choice of text editors because my information was woefully out-of-date
  • Clarified subsection on being comfortable at the command-line as I think exactly how to word it

2022-08-26

• Fixed syntax highlighting for Exercise 1.5.12, "More Tries"
• Updated callout blocks to use "hints" plugin:
  • Exercise 1.2.3, "Unicode and Strings"
  • Exercise 1.2.5, "More Characters"
  • Exercise 1.2.6, "Character Codes"
  • Exercise 1.2.8, "Printing"
  • Exercise 1.2.11, "Printing with PRINC"
  • Exercise 1.2.16, "File Streams"
  • Chapter 1.11, "Extra Credit: A Simple Text Adventure"

2022-08-25

• Exercise 1.1.8, "Configuring Your Development Environment"
  • Cleaned-up inline hints
  • Removed deprecated section about the in-browser REPL
  • Clarified download and installation instructions for SBCL and Quicklisp
  • Rewrote and simplified section on choosing a text editor to avoid all talk of Emacs and Vim (like I should have done in the first place)

2022-08-24

• Added book.json to manually define GitBook configuration and fix some outstanding oddities
• Reorganized SUMMARY.md to generate a better TOC for "folding-chapters" plugin
• Added GitBook plugins:
  • "hints"
  • "folding-chapters"
  • "localized-footer"
  • "prism"

2022-08-23

• Added CHANGELOG and TODO chapters
• Deprecated and removed old "Draft Progress at a Glance" section from title page

2022-08-22

• Re-launched Learn Lisp The Hard Way on common-lisp.net
• Cleaned-up markdown source files for GitBook on GitLab Pages
• Removed purposely absurd "BigInt" examples from all exercises of Chapter 1.6, Numbers and Math, because GitBook couldn't parse them without crashing
• Removed Extra Credit Exercise 1.1.9, Setting Up and Learning Emacs Live