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

From: Stephen Bloch (bloch at adelphi.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 28 10:46:59 EDT 2014

On Apr 28, 2014, at 10:40 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

> Another problem with this approach is that BSL is not the right choice
> for many people in the first category.  They might be starting using
> DMDA, or Picturing Programs, or working on their own with SICP.

I don’t remember how much Scheme you need to use the sample code in SICP — at least ISSL — but Picturing Programs is written assuming you’re starting in BSL, and it explicitly says when to switch to another language.


Stephen Bloch
sbloch at adelphi.edu



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