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 racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
