[racket] try-racket alternative

Wow. I like the design.

I like that the design is not similar to the circle in The Hudsucker
Proxy: "You know. For kids!"

  Sidenote:

  Lately my Twitter feed says people like Phil Hagelberg (aka
  Technomancy) and John Carmack (makes some games?) are teaching their
  kids how to code using Racket. Which is awesome. As are Realm of
  Racket and Bootstrap.

  A potential risk: People are dismissive: "Racket? Oh yeah. For kids."

  Also, any design aimed at X year olds probably makes them cringe and
  instead appeals to (- X 5) year olds. Where X < ~25. This probably
  reverses for larger X. :)


I like both domain names and goals. I like how try-racket.org is
explicit about promoting Racket. I like how trycode.io is general and
presumes well of course it uses Racket.

If you two do join forces in terms of sharing a look and feel? Or even
share infrastucture (if not lesson content and domains)? I hope that the
look(s) and feel(s) remain in the same ballbark as trycode.io.

Also I'm trying to think of ways I could actually help (as opposed to
giving unsolicited advice like this).

TL;DR what both of you have done is awesome.

On Thu, Feb 26 2015 at 12:10 PM EST, Floyd Arguello <floyd.arguello at gmail.com> wrote:
>   Thanks! I mean for it to be an alternative for kids, and not a replacement for try-racket.org. The Quick Guide is an awesome tutorial for evaluating Racket, but my daughters struggled with it. How do you write something simple enough for people with no programming experience, without boring experienced programmers? My thought was to have two online REPLs.
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> I do plan to submit pull requests to your repo after testing the javascript changes/additions a bit more. I also made one change in main.rkt, so that a user can start the web server by specifying the path to main.rkt… simpler for scripting.
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> We can also update the design for Try Racket, either using Try Code’s design, or maintaining consistency with racket-lang.org.
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> I can take over try-racket.org if you want, or I can submit PRs to your repo.
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>> On Feb 25, 2015, at 11:57 PM, J Arcane <jarcane at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Oh wow! This is quite lovely. Definitely an improvement so far, in my book.
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>>>>> So, I thought I’d create an alternative to try-racket - for kids ages 12 and
>>>>> up, give or take.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> With that in mind, I forkedhttps://github.com/jarcane/try-racket
>>>>> ....