[racket] Isn't the web application tutorial too advanced?

Hi Ben,
This is a very simple introduction for our first year students, no experience required (hopefully):
http://www.rmnd.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/w2-programming.pdf
Let me know if this is OK for you or if you spot typos etc. Ignore section 2.3, which requires other material.

Franco


On 4 May 2014, at 12:35, Ben <yfefyf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Danny. You've already done a great job. Just not suitable for me. As you have said, I've never done any serious web development before. Maybe your tutorial serves experienced developers well.
> 
> 
> And a small typo: In section "7 Share and Share Alike", there's a `insert-blog-post!` which probably should be `blog-insert-post!`.
> 
> 
> Hope that I'm not bringing too much work for you.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:
> > All the way down to Advanced Control Flow part, my confusion accumulated to
> > a point that I thought I was not ready for the tutorial. Then I decided to
> > give up.
> 
> Ok, that was useful feedback!  I'll try to think about how the points
> may be addressed.
> 
> For one of the comments you made about render-blog-page taking in a
> parameter that it does not use, yes, you're absolutely right.  Thank
> you!  I don't know how I missed that one.  When I have time, I'll try
> to get a patch submitted to correct the dead code issue.
> 
> For the other issues you're pointing out, that might be a bit harder
> to fix without rethinking the section and more major reworking of that
> material.  What you're saying is that the send/suspend/dispatch
> section is not introducing the concept well.  On re-reading it, I
> think you're right.  I wrote that section it with the perspective of
> someone who had done web development in the past, and that is showing
> through in that section.  My apologies!
> 
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