[racket] DrRacket GUI tutorial with MVC concepts?
There is a section on MVC in HtDP:
http://htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/curriculum-Z-H-28.html#node_sec_22.3
It uses a GUI TeachPack.
2013/12/16 Janos Tobias Locsei <jtlocsei at cantab.net>:
> Geoff, maybe your son would enjoy the book "Realm of Racket" which teaches
> game programming in Racket? It teaches MVC by osmosis, i.e. MVC is not
> explicitly discussed but you learn to structure your code along those lines
> anyway. I'm about 1/3 of the way through the book and it's good fun. It's
> amazing how little code it takes to make the "snakes" game.
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> Tobias
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> From: "Geoffrey S. Knauth" <geoff at knauth.org>
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> 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:
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> http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
> Geoff
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> [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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