[racket] Summer programs learning Racket for a student

They can take the course for credit or not for credit. The course does use
HtDP, universe, and the Racket student languages. The course is opened to
any student that has taken algebra and has an interest in problem solving
using a computer. Your student sounds like he has the necessary background
and his experience with HtDP is an added bonus.

Marco


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:31 PM, <jab at math.brown.edu> wrote:

> Thanks Marco! Would this course be available to a rising 9th grader? Looks
> like this is one of the "College Credit Courses", which seem to be only
> available to rising juniors and seniors.
>
> Good to see on-campus housing might be an option though in case that's
> preferable to commuting from NYC.
>
> Also, I didn't see Racket or any other resources used mentioned in the
> course description:
>
> Programming skills are important to virtually every profession.
>> Professionals must make decisions on how to achieve goals by deciding what
>> steps are necessary. This course is an introduction to computer programming
>> that teaches students how to make plans, to organize their thoughts, to pay
>> attention to detail, and to be self-critical. The main focus of the course
>> is the design process that leads students from a problem statement and a
>> blank page to a well-organized solution. Topics include the processing of
>> simple forms of data, the processing of arbitrarily large data, and the
>> process of abstraction. This course assumes no prior computer programming
>> experience. 3 credits
>
>
> Is that info available somewhere?
>
> Thanks again. Excited to hear about more options.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Marco Morazan <morazanm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I run Intro to Program Design I and II over the summer at Seton Hall:
>> http://www7.shu.edu/summer-session/pre-college.cfm
>>
>> It may be of interest to your student.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:07 AM, <jab at math.brown.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Racket Users,
>>>
>>> I've been tutoring an 8th grader in Racket for the last few months.
>>> We're just about to finish part I of HtDP2e (
>>> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/part_one.html).
>>>
>>> He's interested in doing a summer program along the lines of
>>> http://www.idtech.com/teens/ but ideally he'd be able to continue
>>> learning Racket where we leave off. Does anyone know of any summer programs
>>> for teens where Racket is the language used?
>>>
>>> A friend of mine used to teach one at Brown, but from
>>> http://www.brown.edu/ce/pre-college/catalog/?p%5B%5D=1 it looks like
>>> now only bash, Python, and Matlab are available. Google searches like
>>> "racket programming summer camp" didn't immediately turn up anything either
>>> (and inevitably include results about tennis camps).
>>>
>>> Thanks for any tips you may have.
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Marco
>>
>> Have a´¨)
>> ¸.·´¸.·*´¨) ¸.·*¨)
>> (¸.·´ (¸.·´ * wonderful day! :)
>>
>
>


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Cheers,

Marco

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