Re: [racket] learning recursion

2015-02-06 Thread Amir Ansari
Get 'The Little Schemer', by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen. It's the classic introduction to everything about recursion. Very engaging, friendly, and funny! Amir On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:01:25 +0100 Roelof Wobben wrote: > Hello, > > I try to learn functional programming by self-

Re: [racket] book for a absolute beginner

2014-10-16 Thread Amir Ansari
A colleague and I are working on a book for absolute beginners (ie. middle and high schoolers), but it's still at an early stage... The best books I've come across are: The Little Schemer, by Daniel Friedman and Matthias Felleisen Realm of Racket, by Matthias Felleisen et al How to Design Progra

Re: [racket] Hosting the try-racket REPL.

2014-09-22 Thread Amir Ansari
If you run it inside a BSD jail, that should take care of a lot of the possible issues... But you're right, of course. It should be able to run without X. On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:11:25 +0300 J Arcane wrote: > That does sound an awful headache for something that otherwise doesn't seem > to be u

Re: [racket] Hosting the try-racket REPL.

2014-09-21 Thread Amir Ansari
Have you tried Xvfb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb), a virtual X server? It runs headlessly, sidesteps the whole issue of having to fork the code... Amir Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users