<div dir="ltr">I used raco --exe to create a Windows executable last summer that launched a local webserver, opened the browser, and served content locally. There was a little confusion on my part regarding where things were, but it isn't hard/there shouldn't be any show-stoppers.<div>
<br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Matt</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:24 PM, John Clements <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clements@brinckerhoff.org" target="_blank">clements@brinckerhoff.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:16 AM, manu d wrote:</div><br>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hello</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I got my web-based Racket tutorial off the ground.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You can find it here: <a href="https://github.com/voila/try-racket" target="_blank">https://github.com/voila/try-racket</a></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It's still rough around the edges, but it is now possible to go through the tutorial 'Quick: An Introduction to Racket with Pictures'.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Note that there's a few things missing from the original tutorial:</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- in the 'Lists' section, I omitted this snippet: (list (circle 10) (square 10))</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">At the moment, I can only display single images.</span></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I've also omitted the section on objects, as it uses Racket’s GUI. Maybe someone can come up with some alternative content for this section.</font></div>
<div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Help, suggestions and bug reports, welcome !</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>I TOTALLY LOVE this project. </div><div><br></div>
<div>First: I'd really like to use this as a supporting or primary resource in my intro-to-programming class this fall.</div><div><br></div><div>Second: have you thought at all about how hard it would be to bundle this as an executable runnable on, say, Windows? I know it seems really perverse to create a web-based service and then run it all client-side, but it looks to me like this might be the easiest path to distributing the workload. My recollection is that in the past, it's been hard for Windows users to run apps that serve web pages locally, but perhaps things are easier now.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks again for this work: I can't wait to see how it develops!</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>John</div></font></span><div class="im"><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks</span><br>
</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Manu</span></div></div>
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