[racket-dev] actionable items, was: comments on "comments on learning Racket"

2014-04-28 16:12 GMT+02:00 Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>:
> SAM:
>
>> Also, I think that in almost every course using DrRacket, the students
>> will need to learn how to choose languages, because they will switch
>> from one teaching language to the next. So I think this won't be
>> unfriendly.
>
> I am not sure this is true for simple high school courses or anyone who wants to run Bootstrap 2 off-line.

In a high school context the teacher will typically show the students
how to install DrRacket and then guide them through their first
example.

Starting the program with #lang beginner would not be a problem, as
far as I can see.

/Jens Axel