[racket] Realm of Racket

I ordered it from Amazon.  FYI, They have a comparable discount and free
slow shipping (or free fast shipping with Amazon prime).

-Joe


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

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> Thanks!
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> On Jun 18, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Cosme Enmanuel Zamudio Salazar wrote:
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> 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,
>>
>> Realm of Racket is finally out.  For the first 72 hours, NoStarch.comoffers 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
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