Since from his first months learning Racket, my son Alex immediately started diving into the language-altering aspects of Racket, when you do develop a tutorial/pedagogy for that, you might see what reaction he has.
On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 8:18:53 AM UTC-4, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > On Mar 26, 2015, at 7:42 AM, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > > > In my opinion, it would be interesting to develop a pedagogical > > approach to the language development theme in the form of tutorials, > > books, or presentations. Maybe even a "teaching language" with a > > simplified version of syntax/parse. The goal would be both to lower > > the entry barrier to the most interesting aspects of the Racket > > universe, and to gain insight by teaching, i.e. find better ways > > to do things in the future. > > As you probably realize, this is the suggestion -- in more words -- > that is mentioned in the conclusion, and academics who know us will > interpret this code in exactly this way. > > The idea has been on my mind for years. Three years ago I opened a > notes file to get this going by 2015. Sadly, there are no entries > since 2013 and overall there are only two entries overall. > > But yes, section 3 is the hard part and work on 4 and 5 is > "substitution" as Daniel Kahneman would say. > > -- Matthias -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
