[racket] Realm of Racket

Thanks! 

On Jun 18, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Cosme Enmanuel Zamudio Salazar wrote:

> Congratulations, already ordered the book!
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> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> Dear list members,
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> 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.
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> 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
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> p.s. I am told you're welcome to re-distribute the coupon message below as widely as you wish.
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> > Date: June 18, 2013 11:00:20 AM EDT
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