Well, yes, if you solve the problem and plug the solution into the teachpack as advertised, you get to hear Stephanie Weirich pronounce the numbers. -- Matthias
On Jul 18, 2011, at 9:28 PM, John Riedl wrote: > Thanks. The sound.ss install worked fine from Windows 7, and plays > .wav files, as advertised. > > What I was going from to expect speak-word and speak-list was this > quote from HtDP: > > ----------- > Once the controller returns the correct list for amounts whose dollar > and cent amounts are between 0 and 20, test the controller with a > computer that can speak. Set the teachpack to sound.ss, which makes > two operations available: speak-word and speak-list. The first accepts > a symbol or a number, the second a list of symbols and numbers. Both > pronounce the symbols they consume. Evaluate the following expressions > (speak-word 1), (speak-list (cons 1 (cons 'dollar empty))), and > (speak-list (cons 'beautiful (cons 'lady empty))) to understand how > the operations operate. > ---------- > > What am I misunderstanding? > > Thanks, > John > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Matthias Felleisen > <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >> >> That's all our sound teachpack ever did. The old one is located at >> >> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP/Sound/ >> >> As you can see, it hasn't been maintained in a while. Sorry, let us >> know if it works [I don't have time right now to try.] >> >> >> On Jul 18, 2011, at 5:44 PM, John Riedl wrote: >> >>> Hello. What happened to the sound.ss teachpack, which apparently used >>> to include speak-word and speak-list methods. Those sound great fun >>> for teaching ... but I can't find any evidence on the Web that it ever >>> existed, except for Google Books hits on HtDP :). (Note that there is >>> a deinprogramm/sound.ss file in the current distro, but that just >>> plays sound files, which is less cool.) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> John >>> >>> _________________________________________________ >>> For list-related administrative tasks: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >> >> _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
