[racket] Isn't the web application tutorial too advanced?

Thank you, Franco. I think I'm a little bit more experienced than your
target readers. However, I will definitely read it and give you my feedback
in a few days.

Ben


On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Franco Raimondi <f.raimondi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Ben,
> This is a very simple introduction for our first year students, no
> experience required (hopefully):
> http://www.rmnd.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/w2-programming.pdf
> Let me know if this is OK for you or if you spot typos etc. Ignore section
> 2.3, which requires other material.
>
> Franco
>
>
> On 4 May 2014, at 12:35, Ben <yfefyf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thank you, Danny. You've already done a great job. Just not suitable for
> me. As you have said, I've never done any serious web development before.
> Maybe your tutorial serves experienced developers well.
> >
> >
> > And a small typo: In section "7 Share and Share Alike", there's a
> `insert-blog-post!` which probably should be `blog-insert-post!`.
> >
> >
> > Hope that I'm not bringing too much work for you.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org>
> wrote:
> > > All the way down to Advanced Control Flow part, my confusion
> accumulated to
> > > a point that I thought I was not ready for the tutorial. Then I
> decided to
> > > give up.
> >
> > Ok, that was useful feedback!  I'll try to think about how the points
> > may be addressed.
> >
> > For one of the comments you made about render-blog-page taking in a
> > parameter that it does not use, yes, you're absolutely right.  Thank
> > you!  I don't know how I missed that one.  When I have time, I'll try
> > to get a patch submitted to correct the dead code issue.
> >
> > For the other issues you're pointing out, that might be a bit harder
> > to fix without rethinking the section and more major reworking of that
> > material.  What you're saying is that the send/suspend/dispatch
> > section is not introducing the concept well.  On re-reading it, I
> > think you're right.  I wrote that section it with the perspective of
> > someone who had done web development in the past, and that is showing
> > through in that section.  My apologies!
> >
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