[racket] Try Racket

I used raco --exe to create a Windows executable last summer that launched
a local webserver, opened the browser, and served content locally. There
was a little confusion on my part regarding where things were, but it isn't
hard/there shouldn't be any show-stoppers.

Cheers,
Matt


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:24 PM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org>wrote:

>
> 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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