[racket] Realm of Racket

I've ordered the book with free ebook.
May I ask if the book is written in Scribble?


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

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> Dear list members,
>
> Realm of Racket is finally out.  For the first 72 hours, NoStarch.com
> offers a 40% off coupon  plus a free
> e-book version if you buy the book from their website. Otherwise the book
> is distributed through O'Reilly
> and is available at the usual places wherever O'Reilly sells its wares.
>
> ROAR is a book designed and authored by freshmen students from
> Northeastern, edited by myself and
> David Van Horn. It is intended for novices with some basic exposure to
> programming, not necessarily
> in Racket or Lisp-related languages. Following Conrad Barski's Land of
> Lisp, ROAR mixes instructions
> on programming with the creation of interactive games;, all of it
> illustrated with drawings and short cartoon
> stories. While LOL uses text-based gaming, ROAR is based on the HtDP 2e
> libraries, used inside of #lang
> racket modules. NoStarch.com's web site includes a sample chapter, "Hungry
> Henry", which showcases
> the creation of distributed GUI games.
>
> At Northeastern, we intend to use ROAR as the recommended bridge between
> HtDP/2e -- which does not
> use Racket but teaching languages -- and real Racket programming. I will
> also borrow exercises from ROAR
> to run my freshman course on program design.
>
> Congratulations to Mimi, Spencer, Rose, Eric, Scott, Ryan, Forrest, and
> Nicole for sticking through a
> two-year production process.
>
> Enjoy -- Matthias
>
> p.s. I am told you're welcome to re-distribute the coupon message below as
> widely as you wish.
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