Re: [racket] RacketCon / hackathon question

2013-09-26 Thread Asumu Takikawa
On 2013-09-23 20:15:20 -0400, Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote: > He just started in June; he aced Gregor Kiczales' MOOC. What opineth > the hackathon masters? [had been meaning to reply to this, but other stuff got queued up] One thing that we strongly encourage at the Hackathon is that people program

Re: [racket] RacketCon / hackathon question

2013-09-23 Thread Matthias Felleisen
What if we suggest some games to implement? He'd be alone but surrounded by Racketeers who know. On Sep 23, 2013, at 8:15 PM, Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote: > I'm bringing my 16 year-old son to RacketCon on Sunday, since he loves > Racket. It's also the weekend of my college 30th reunion. On th

Re: [racket] RacketCon / hackathon question

2013-09-23 Thread Carl Eastlund
The hackathon is open for anyone to work on anything. We have suggestions, which may or may not be at your son's speed, but we'll be there to help him find something that's good for him, and the choice will ultimately be up to him. So absolutely, send him along if he'd like to join us! --Carl O

[racket] RacketCon / hackathon question

2013-09-23 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
I'm bringing my 16 year-old son to RacketCon on Sunday, since he loves Racket. It's also the weekend of my college 30th reunion. On the Saturday, he could go to the Racket hackathon, or he could go to my daytime reunion activities. I was looking at the list of things going on at the hackathon