[racket] try-racket alternative

Oh wow! This is quite lovely. Definitely an improvement so far, in my book.

I believe that the one included in try-racket is mostly based upon the
Quick Guide: http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/ The examples are largely
similar, I think just a few things were tweaked or abbreviated.

The state of the web front-end is mostly unmodified because I simply didn't
have much in the way of web-design skills when I took on the project. I
treated the JS side in particular as little more than a black box. I've
picked up some JS/HTML since, but my skills as an admin or a web dev still
leave a lot to be desired.

Ultimately, my interest has always been in just seeing to it that there was
a high-quality online repl available for Racket somewhere, and at the time,
none was hosted, so I took up the repo because I needed to be able to
easily push changes to get it working.

This is all just a rambling lead up to say that I really like what you've
done with the thing, and to be perfectly honest would be quite happy to
hand over the domain.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Floyd Arguello <floyd.arguello at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Thank you!
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> They are enjoying Racket - Realm of Racket is a phenomenal book.
>
> Floyd
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>  On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at cs.indiana.edu>
> wrote:
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> This is really nicely done! I hope your daughters are enjoying Racket
> as well. :)
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> Sam
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> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Floyd Arguello
> <floyd.arguello at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  I found that my daughters had a lot of questions when they went through
> the
> tutorial at http://try-racket.org/ - what’s a function? What’s a binding?
> Lambda? Lexical scope?
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> So, I thought I’d create an alternative to try-racket - for kids ages 12
> and
> up, give or take.
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> With that in mind, I forked https://github.com/jarcane/try-racket,
> applied a
> new design, and added:
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> * the bootstrap js framework
> * the ability to clear and reset the console (doesn’t clear pictures yet)
> * multi-line entries in the console - auto indents at 2 spaces (needs more
> work)
>
> I also removed “context” from the error messages - to keep the errors short
> and sweet.
>
> It’s very much a work in progress, but you can see it here:
> http://trycode.io/
>
> As for the content, one idea is to rewrite the tutorial for a younger, less
> experienced crowd, and use the “info” box in the lower left to provide
> additional information, terminology, context, etc…
>
> Another idea is to write a simple, text-based game; though it lacks the
> instant gratification of a picture appearing in the console.
>
> Any ideas/feedback?
>
> Anyone want to pitch in? :)
>
> https://github.com/arguello/trycode.io
>
> Thanks,
> Floyd
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