[plt-scheme] why no display in DrScheme beginning student level?

One simple solution to this problem is to put string constants in the
middle of the program to show where the breaks are:

"Area tests"
(area 3)
"should be"
...

"Elephant tests"
(animal-legs (make-elephant 4 ...))
"should be"
...

Hth,
Robby

At Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:40:36 -0700 (PDT), "Sharon M. Tuttle" wrote:
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> I am using "How to Design Programs" for an introductory CS course
> (hooray! although it may be the only time I get to use it --- sob!)
> 
> Anyway, my students and I are noticing that, once you have a few
> functions and tests in a file, it gets difficult to keep track of
> which tests are which. I would like to use something like a c shell
> "echo" command to just insert little comments before tests. I cannot
> see how to do so in the "Beginning Student" level of DrScheme, however.
> 
> I could have them change language to "Advanced Student", and then they
> could use display, but that seems to be defeating the purpose of
> the "Beginning Student" level (and the more coherent error messages,
> etc.)
> 
> We're only up to Section 4 (conditionals) so far --- am I missing an
> obvious solution to this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Sharon Tuttle
>    Dept. of Computing Science
>    Humboldt State University
>