[plt-scheme] Examples of Scheme (or Lisp) in real-world

I give a homework assignment rather than a quiz.  It's at
http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~cs1102/a08/Assignments/Hwk5/index.html.
Doesn't get all the students to read deeply, but most do seem to read
them enough to get the main points.

Kathi

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
> My colleague Kathi Fisler finds it effective to give a small quiz to
> force students to actually read the essay(s).  Maybe she can say more.
>
> On Tue, Mar 9 2010 at 3:50 PM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
> <ciprian.craciun at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>>> You might find the links in the README for my course last fall worth
>>> providing to your students:
>>>
>>> http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs019/2009/readme
>>>
>>> Shriram
>>
>>
>>    Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately there is a little problem
>> with this... I've tried that three weeks ago... No change... :) :) :)
>>
>>    Below is the contents of the first section of my first laboratory
>> (the links are missing from the text as I've copy pasted, but at the
>> end I've also put my lab link). Indeed what you say there fits
>> perfectly as a case pro functional programming (pro Lisp).
>> Unfortunately we need a lot of good will from our students to actually
>> read and understand all these ideas. (Maybe a quiz from all those good
>> essays... :) :) )
>>
>>    Thanks again,
>>    Ciprian.
>>
>>
>> ~~~~
>> Optional (but highly recommended) reading
>>
>> The following essays are stolen from Shriram Krishnamurthi [ edited:
>> here is the link to your readme ]:
>>
>>    * Beating the Averages, by Paul Graham;
>>    * Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years, by Peter Norvig;
>>    * The Perils of JavaSchools, by Joel Spolsky;
>> ~~~~
>> http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Functional_programming_--_2009-2010_--_info.uvt.ro/Laboratory/Notes_1
>>
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