Tell 12 year old middle school students.
On Mar 31, 2013, at 9:15 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > I said this to you in person, but I continue to think that 2htdp should just > do away with the concept of teachpacks, and just use the require form always. > Even today, it could insert a require instead of modifying hidden state. > > Sam > > On Mar 31, 2013 6:45 PM, "Matthias Felleisen" <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > Correct, and we have run into this "image" problem for a while now. > > I think the most important improvements are: > > 1. to swap the teachpack menus for 2e and 1e > 2. to increase the titles of all three panes so that it becomes clear what > you are dealing with > > Eventually the pane for 1e should become something "almost hidden" > but we are not there yet. > > -- Matthias > > p.s. And yes, it would be nice if the window had a title such as "add > teachpacks" > > > > > On Mar 23, 2013, at 5:49 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > > > Opening up the "Add Teachpack" dialog presents the user with two lists > > of libraries, which overlap in exactly one case: "image.ss". This > > makes it very easy for the user to choose the old image.ss library > > when working with HtDP2e. Further, there's no indication in DrRacket > > as to which one of these was chosen. > > > > I can think of a couple ways this could be improved: the HtDP2e > > prologue could be explicit about which pane of the dialog to look in, > > and the dialog itself could ask the user which book they're using. > > Also, it would be great if DrRacket said "Teachpack: image.ss (from > > HtDP)" in the language position. Or we could just hide the old > > teachpack. > > > > Sam > > > > PS: the Add Teachpack dialog has no title on my machine, or rather > > it's just titled "DrRacket". > > _________________________ > > Racket Developers list: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev >
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