[racket] Try Racket

On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:16 AM, manu d wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I got my web-based Racket tutorial off the ground.
> 
> You can find it here: https://github.com/voila/try-racket
> 
> It's still rough around the edges, but it is now possible to go through the tutorial 'Quick: An Introduction to Racket with Pictures'.
> 
> Note that there's a few things missing from the original tutorial:
> 
> - in the 'Lists' section, I omitted this snippet: (list (circle 10) (square 10))
> At the moment, I can only display single images.
> 
> I've also omitted the section on objects, as it uses Racket’s GUI. Maybe someone can come up with some alternative content for this section.
> 
> Help, suggestions and bug reports, welcome !

I TOTALLY LOVE this project. 

First: I'd really like to use this as a supporting or primary resource in my intro-to-programming class this fall.

Second: have you thought at all about how hard it would be to bundle this as an executable runnable on, say, Windows? I know it seems really perverse to create a web-based service and then run it all client-side, but it looks to me like this might be the easiest path to distributing the workload. My recollection is that in the past, it's been hard for Windows users to run apps that serve web pages locally, but perhaps things are easier now.

Thanks again for this work: I can't wait to see how it develops!

John


> 
> Thanks
> 
> Manu
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