[plt-scheme] creating a standalone

Just for curiosity, how do you manage to include teaching scheme in a
math lecture in high school?

Does teaching Scheme has anything to do with math? Have they tried for
example to program a function to find the roots of a quadratic
polynomial?

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 17:04, Joshua Zucker wrote:
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> Hi,
> I'm a high school math teacher whose previous programming experience is
> fortran and C on VMS and Unix, and now here I am having read HtDP and
> trying to teach my students how to use Scheme on Mac OSX (and many of my
> students, on Windows at home).  It's working surprisingly well given how
> ignorant I am about programming!
> 
> Right now they're working on projects using the draw.ss teachpack:
> tic-tac-toe, "snake", "space invaders" (based on the UFO / AUP extended
> exercise), and tetris.  I made a connect four game (though it's strategy
> engine is currently "move at random", at least the GUI works and it can
> tell when you win or lose or tie!).
> 
> My problem: I want to create a standalone app for each of these projects,
> to make it easier to share with the rest of the world.
> 
> I've tried fiddling with mzc at the Mac OSX terminal command line, but no
> luck.
> 
> I also tried setting language level to "module" , putting at the top of my
> connectfour.scm file
> (module connectfour mzscheme
> 
> and at the end of the file, a close ).
> 
> But now
> 1) how do I tell it to use the draw.ss teachpack?
> 2) why do I get the error message 
> load-handler: expected a 'module' declaration for
> 'connectfour' in
> "...big long path name/connectfour.scm", but found something else
> 
> Thanks so much for your help
> (and thanks for writing HtDP, I've learned a lot about programming!)
> 
> --Joshua Zucker
> Castilleja School
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.castilleja.org
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