LISP

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

Name:

Date:

Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/lisp

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

S-expression: Symbolic expression, the fundamental data and code structure in LISP, typically a list enclosed in parentheses.
Homoiconicity: The property of a programming language where its internal representation of programs is similar or identical to its own data structures.
Functional Programming: A programming paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing-state and mutable data.
Metaprogramming: Writing computer programs that write or manipulate other programs (or themselves) as their data.