[racket] DrRacket GUI tutorial with MVC concepts?

We call it MVC when we must and it is (kind of) baked into the big-bang approach in the Program by Design curriculum. But we don't use pattern terminology all that much -- Matthias





On Dec 14, 2013, at 7:05 PM, Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote:

> My son, who I'm afraid/inspired to say is a DrRacket addict, in that he does much of his homework (physics, calculus, Latin, music, what-next...) in DrRacket, has read through the Racket GUI Toolkit docs at:
> 
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/
> 
> and presto, he has an app that can conjugate or decline any number of Latin words in a window.  The window has tabs and buttons and text areas and all the good stuff the toolkit provides, but in talking with him I discovered he'd never heard about MVC.  Is there a Racket tutorial somewhere that goes into the proper MVC (or whatever you want to call it) approach in the context of building Racket applications?
> 
> By the way, what does the Racket community call MVC?  I've seen other communities come up with their own terminology (e.g., [1]), and I don't know/remember if Racket has stayed with MVC or called it something else.
> 
> Thanks,
> Geoff
> 
> [1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/#django-appears-to-be-a-mvc-framework-but-you-call-the-controller-the-view-and-the-view-the-template-how-come-you-don-t-use-the-standard-names
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