I don't see why middle school students would have more trouble with `require` than with any other aspect of the system.
Also, WeScheme just provides graphics libraries by default, which is another option we could consider. On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > 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 >> > _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
