If the purpose is to work thru a 'regular starter book', Realm of Racket may work better than 2e at the moment if someone can help. ROAR basically assumes someone has programmed a little bit in something, anything.
If the purpose is to launch the person on a career in programming, start with 2e. On Jun 25, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Sean Kanaley wrote: > To the authors: > > I have recommended Realm of Racket to a friend who expressed an interest in > programming in conjunction with HtDP. Now, I'm sure the creators would > "strongly encourage" future software engineers to be comfortable with the > material in HtDP, but exactly how difficult is the "intended for novices with > basic exposure to programming" Realm of Racket? I ask because I'd rather not > give him two books to work through at the same time and have him lose > interest trying to solve n-queens and implement BFS vs making (to him > possibly more interesting) games. > > I'm geographically close in real life to I can also lend assistance in the > beginning. So is it a true starter book? > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
