Thanks, Janos. He and I both have Realm of Racket, and love and appreciate it. I think he kind of got MVC by osmosis, so it succeeded, it just struck me that he hadn't ever heard of MVC, and that made me wonder if PLT had a "philosophy" about systems building, given that PLT tools grow in capability and scalability every year. It's OK if it doesn't, though I bet developers coming from other languages and frameworks will ask the same question. I was just wondering.
In fairness to my son, when I was his age in 1976, when I thought I knew everything (cough cough) — I didn't even know there were persons called Knuth, McCarthy, Church, Turing, ... In fairness to life, in the following decades I got to meet most of the living giants of the field, a field which continues to explode with surprises. Geoff On Dec 16, 2013, at 14:33 , Janos Tobias Locsei <jtloc...@cantab.net> wrote: > Geoff, maybe your son would enjoy the book "Realm of Racket" which teaches > game programming in Racket? It teaches MVC by osmosis, i.e. MVC is not > explicitly discussed but you learn to structure your code along those lines > anyway. I'm about 1/3 of the way through the book and it's good fun. It's > amazing how little code it takes to make the "snakes" game. > > Tobias > > > Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:05:16 -0500 > From: "Geoffrey S. Knauth" <ge...@knauth.org> > To: users@racket-lang.org > Subject: [racket] DrRacket GUI tutorial with MVC concepts? > > My son, who I'm afraid/inspired to say is a DrRacket addict, in that he does > much of his homework (physics, calculus, Latin, music, what-next...) in > DrRacket, has read through the Racket GUI Toolkit docs at: > > http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/ > > and presto, he has an app that can conjugate or decline any number of Latin > words in a window. The window has tabs and buttons and text areas and all > the good stuff the toolkit provides, but in talking with him I discovered > he'd never heard about MVC. Is there a Racket tutorial somewhere that goes > into the proper MVC (or whatever you want to call it) approach in the context > of building Racket applications? > > By the way, what does the Racket community call MVC? I've seen other > communities come up with their own terminology (e.g., [1]), and I don't > know/remember if Racket has stayed with MVC or called it something else. > > Thanks, > Geoff > > [1] > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/#django-appears-to-be-a-mvc-framework-but-you-call-the-controller-the-view-and-the-view-the-template-how-come-you-don-t-use-the-standard-names ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
