[plt-scheme] Re: new interactive programming material for beginners

It's more like a resumption:

  http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP/Prologue/book.html


We have been teaching with world for 3+ years now. -- Matthias




On Aug 15, 2008, at 4:49 AM, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:03:01 -0400, "Shriram Krishnamurthi"
> <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear PLT Users,
>>
>> As some of you know, we have been working on a new way of writing
>> interactive applications, such as games, using just pure functional
>> programming.  We call this the World style, and it is embodied in the
>> world.ss Teachpack included in the DrScheme distribution.
>>
>> In response to demand, we are creating extended materials on this
>> style of programming:
>>
>>  http://world.cs.brown.edu/
>
> Fascinating!  The following sentence on page 1 of Chapter 1:
>
>> DrScheme treats images just like numbers, symbols, and other  
>> Scheme values, which means you can
>> write functions that consume and produce them.
>
> reminded me of the treatment of images as parameters to functions in
> the following essay:
>
> 1 Why Computer Science Doesn't Matter
> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/essays/not-matter.html
>
> which was recently introduced in this forum by Matthias Felleisen in
> the following thread:
>
> [plt-scheme] Re: More pedagogic stuff:
> http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2008-August/026430.html
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but is this a continuation? ;-)
>
> -- Benjamin L. Russell
>
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