[racket-dev] Revising Racket's home page

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at cs.indiana.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 20 09:52:45 EDT 2013

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote at 08/20/2013 09:40 AM:
>
>> Are you referring to the "Quick" tutorial?  I don't think that's aimed
>> at children, per se -- just people who have no experience w/ Racket.
>>
>
>
> OK, I can only offer a single data point: to me, one glance at the "Quick"
> tutorial looks like "educational language for children; close browser tab
> and find another thing to look at."  I don't know how anyone else perceives
> it.

Can you say more about why this is? Is it the pictures? How does it
compare to one of these tutorials for Processing:
http://processing.org/tutorials/ ?

Sam

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