<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Thanks! </div><br><div><div>On Jun 18, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Cosme Enmanuel Zamudio Salazar wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Congratulations, already ordered the book!<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Matthias Felleisen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu" target="_blank">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br> <br> Dear list members,<br> <br> Realm of Racket is finally out.  For the first 72 hours, <a href="http://NoStarch.com">NoStarch.com</a> offers a 40% off coupon  plus a free<br> e-book version if you buy the book from their website. Otherwise the book is distributed through O'Reilly<br> and is available at the usual places wherever O'Reilly sells its wares.<br> <br> ROAR is a book designed and authored by freshmen students from Northeastern, edited by myself and<br> David Van Horn. It is intended for novices with some basic exposure to programming, not necessarily<br> in Racket or Lisp-related languages. Following Conrad Barski's Land of Lisp, ROAR mixes instructions<br> on programming with the creation of interactive games;, all of it illustrated with drawings and short cartoon<br> stories. While LOL uses text-based gaming, ROAR is based on the HtDP 2e libraries, used inside of #lang<br> racket modules. <a href="http://NoStarch.com">NoStarch.com</a>'s web site includes a sample chapter, "Hungry Henry", which showcases<br> the creation of distributed GUI games.<br> <br> At Northeastern, we intend to use ROAR as the recommended bridge between HtDP/2e -- which does not<br> use Racket but teaching languages -- and real Racket programming. I will also borrow exercises from ROAR<br> to run my freshman course on program design.<br> <br> Congratulations to Mimi, Spencer, Rose, Eric, Scott, Ryan, Forrest, and Nicole for sticking through a<br> two-year production process.<br> <br> Enjoy -- Matthias<br> <br> p.s. I am told you're welcome to re-distribute the coupon message below as widely as you wish.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Begin forwarded message:<br> <br> > From: No Starch Press <<a href="mailto:info@nostarch.com">info@nostarch.com</a>><br> > Subject: 40% Off Realm of Racket<br> > Date: June 18, 2013 11:00:20 AM EDT<br> ><br> > Learn to Program, One Game at a Time!<br> > Email look funny?<br> > View it in your browser.<br> ><br> > 40% Off Realm of Racket<br> ><br> > For the next 72 hours, get 40% off Realm of Racket, and learn to program in Racket, one game at a time!<br> ><br> > Use coupon code RACKETEERS.<br> ><br> > Coupon good on print or ebook purchase. Print purchase includes DRM-free ebook (PDF, epub, and mobi).<br> ><br> >   Follow on Twitter   |     Friend on Facebook   |     Forward to a friend<br> > No Starch Press<br> > 38 Ringold Street<br> > San Francisco, CA 94103<br> ><br> > Add us to your address book<br> ><br> >  Update subscription   |   Unsubscribe    |   View in browser<br> ><br> ><br> <br> <br> ____________________<br>   Racket Users list:<br>   <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br> </blockquote></div><br></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>