> On Apr 1, 2018, at 12:57 PM, Stephen Smith <stephen1965sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > my (book) project is for model railroad hobbyists (many if not most who have > never programmed before).
Have you considered the development of a railroad-simulation language within Racket that fits your domain? If you can provide people with a language that fits their problem area, they might be more interested in learning more about programming per se. Since embedded DSLs usually have a natural backdoor, this might be an approach that works well. In my current “hack your own language” course, some kids have gone a step further. They are interested in music theory. So they implemented a language for specifying languages in which students can then create compositions of choral music and the composition is statically checked before they even turn it in. The teacher can create a language per weekly homework and teh students get to see the progression. At the same time, there are several ways to dive into Racket from each level. — Matthias -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
