Re: [racket-users] Re: Beautiful Racket v1.0

2017-10-24 Thread Matthias Felleisen 

> On Oct 24, 2017, at 4:54 AM, Gour  wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:52:29 -0400
> Matthias Felleisen 
> wrote:
> 
>> Realm is for people who cross over from other languages or teachings.
>> It is also a follow-up to HtDP, teaching programming in Racket not
>> design of programs. I consider it a bridge for Racket beginners
>> between HtDP and Beauty. 
> 
> Thank you. I might start with HtDP to (re)learn some of the good
> principles of programming which can be used when using Racket
> (programmable) programming language later. ;)


I would exclusively focus on all sections/chapters that have 
the word ‘design’ in their titles. — Matthias

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[racket-users] Re: Beautiful Racket v1.0

2017-10-24 Thread Gour 
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:52:29 -0400
Matthias Felleisen 
wrote:

> Realm is for people who cross over from other languages or teachings.
> It is also a follow-up to HtDP, teaching programming in Racket not
> design of programs. I consider it a bridge for Racket beginners
> between HtDP and Beauty. 

Thank you. I might start with HtDP to (re)learn some of the good
principles of programming which can be used when using Racket
(programmable) programming language later. ;)


Sincerely,
Gour

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and his enemy as well.


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[racket-users] Re: Beautiful Racket v1.0

2017-10-24 Thread Gour 
On 22 Oct 2017 17:45:00 -0400
"'John Clements' via Racket Users"
 wrote:

> I am not personally a huge fan of the mutation-heavy approach of
> Realm of Racket. Please, correct me if I got the wrong impression
> from the first few exercises. For me, I think that Beautiful Racket
> is a better choice. Depends a lot on you, though.

OK.

> And, of course, I do have to mention HtDP, which is structured as a
> textbook and is really about learning to program, not learning
> Racket, but is a really extraordinary book.

HtDP(2nd ed.) might be interesting approach, although it is probably a bit
slower route, but I wonder about this: "Although the teaching languages borrow
elements from the Racket language, this book does not teach Racket. Then again,
a student who has completed this book can easily move on to Racket.", iow.
whether teaching languages are subset of Racket meaning that 'learning Racket0
is then just a question of expanding the set?


Sincerely,
Gour

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[racket-users] Re: Beautiful Racket v1.0

2017-10-22 Thread Gour 
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 02:04:53 -0700 (PDT)
Vincent Nys  wrote:

> Congrats! I've gone through all the chapters and it has been the most
> entertaining programming book I have ever read. It's been practical,
> too, as I have already used bits of it in a medium-sized (first)
> Racket project. I would gladly buy it and will recommend it to many
> of my co-workers.

I want to (finally) start learning/using Racket and have Realm of Racket
in *.epub format, but wonder which one you find as more suitable for beginner
not having any experience with Lisp/Scheme/Racket?


Sincerely,
Gour

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[racket-users] Re: Beautiful Racket v1.0

2017-03-16 Thread Vincent Nys 
Congrats! I've gone through all the chapters and it has been the most 
entertaining programming book I have ever read. It's been practical, too, as I 
have already used bits of it in a medium-sized (first) Racket project. I would 
gladly buy it and will recommend it to many of my co-workers.

Regards,

Vincent

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