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

They could even be different variations of DrRacket...

drpyret.rkt:
#lang drracket/template
#lang pyret

and bam! New DrRacket binary.


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> You could have different distributions also, with the appropriate default. Tell students to get the "picturing programs" drracket or the "Pyret" drracket, etc etc.
>
> This seems like the way to go. There won't be one optimal solution for
> Racket's wide spectrum of users.
>
> There wouldn't even need to be different distributions, just different
> installers right? Could an installer set the default language in the
> prefs file?
>
>
>
>
>> Students who have a hard time finding "choose a language" will also have decision confusion if given a big dialog of "find your class's preference in the haystack."
>> -Ian
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sam Tobin-Hochstadt" <samth at cs.indiana.edu>
>> To: "Matthias Felleisen" <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>
>> Cc: "dev at racket-lang.org Dev" <dev at racket-lang.org>
>> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 10:40:37 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: Re: [racket-dev] actionable items, was: comments on "comments on learning Racket"
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Matthias Felleisen
>> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>  when drracket starts w/o a preference file, we pop up a radio menu:
>>>
>>>  o Are you a student learning to program?
>>>  o Are you an experienced programmer learning to use Racket?
>>>
>>>  Depending on which bullet the person checks, drracket starts in
>>>  BSL [#lang htdp/bsl, one day soon] or #lang racket.
>>
>> 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. In all
>> of these cases, the language dialog needs to appear.
>>
>> Sam
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