[plt-scheme] creating a standalone

For those of you who don't know:

  PLT Scheme started out as a teaching effort targeted at high schools.  
We regularly invite math, sci, and comp sci teachers every summer (and 
pay for their expenses) to come out for training workshops and  to 
study Scheme programming practically.

  A reasonable number of teachers have used Scheme to teach basic 
algebraic concepts (variable expressions and their evaluation, 
functions as rules,  function composition, etc.) Many have found that 
this is a very different and indeed exciting way to teach math.

If you know of teachers, let them know about it. We are recruiting for 
our next summer's workshops again.

-- Matthias

For an alternative perspective on high school computer science visit

  http://www.teach-scheme.org/




On Mar 15, 2004, at 7:31 PM, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos 
wrote:

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>
> 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:
>>   For list-related administrative tasks:
>>   http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
>>
>> 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
> -- 
>
> Paulo J. Matos : pocm [_at_] mega . ist . utl . pt
> Instituto Superior Tecnico - Lisbon
> Computer and Software Eng. - A.I.
>  - > http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~pocm
> ---
>         -> God had a deadline...
>                 So, he wrote it all in Lisp!
>
>
Matthias Felleisen
Trustee Professor
Northeastern University
Boston, MA