Hi Christopher, Here is a few links to Raclet related videos.
Flatt's HtDP videos: http://www.eng.utah.edu/~cs5510/htdp-videos.html Flatt's CS5510: http://www.eng.utah.edu/~cs5510/schedule.html Bloch's Picturing Programs videos: http://picturingprograms.com/worked-exercises/current/ Clements's videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0EB7BC8D7CF739A More: https://github.com/plt/racket/wiki/Videos /Jens Axel 2014-05-04 18:19 GMT+02:00 Christopher D. Walborn <tuir...@gmail.com>: > Franco, your PDF looks interesting. Any chance the rest of the blocks > are available? > > As for my background, I've been in IT or other tech related fields for > 20 years and have done a little bit of naive shell scripting, but > hadn't had any formal training until last year when I took a MOOC that > used HTDP. (Gregor Kiczales, Introduction to Systematic Program > Design). Since then I've taken a couple other classes from reputable, > big name schools, but they are largely imperative and OO, use Python > in what I gather is a non-idiomatic way, and just feel far less > rigorous, less interesting, and less mind-developing/altering. I've > turned back several times to HTDP to continue working through it on > my own, and I've also worked through most of The Little Schemer but > felt like I was getting in over my head by the Lambda chapter. I'm > looking for any materials I can find that will scratch the itch that > was started by Kiczales's class. > > HTDP seems appropriately paced for me, but I could really use > supplemental materials that build upon it with more projects, or > faster paced tutorials -- something to break it up a bit more than is > possible with the finger exercises. I think that's what happened with > the Kiczales class -- we'd covered the equivalent of a chapter or two > and then work on numerous assignments and projects which required > synthesis of the material. I *really* wish there were more MOOC > offerings that built on Program by Design. Going back to school isn't > currently a possibility for me, but lectures and coursework deadlines > provide a structure that keeps me going where books can be easily laid > aside. Kiczales's class was the best thing I've come across so far. I > want more. Any suggestions? > > Sorry -- I know I've strayed far from the original topic. > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Franco Raimondi <f.raimo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Ben, >> This is a very simple introduction for our first year students, no >> experience required (hopefully): >> http://www.rmnd.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/w2-programming.pdf >> Let me know if this is OK for you or if you spot typos etc. Ignore section >> 2.3, which requires other material. >> >> Franco > > -- > Christopher D. Walborn : http://laconic-prolixity.blogspot.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1st Gent.: Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. > 2nd Gent.: Ay, truly: but I think it is the world > That brings the iron. (Middlemarch, George Eliot) > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users -- -- Jens Axel Søgaard ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
