<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 17, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Chris Stephenson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2. I join everyone (I guess) on this list in recommending the HtDP book</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">as an introduction to programming and the DrScheme environment as a good</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">tool for learning about programming. (It IS only a tool, as is any</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">language/development environment)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Whether the set has an empty complement or not, you can rest assured that I belong to the set of people that DO recommend HtDP. What I tried (badly) to say is that it does an excellent job of teaching programming using Scheme.</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Gregory Woodhouse</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:gregory.woodhouse@sbcglobal.net">gregory.woodhouse@sbcglobal.net</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"Think globally, act locally."</DIV><DIV>--René Dubos</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>