[racket-users] Question about assessing Racket students

2016-06-23 Thread Franco Raimondi
Dear All, I am a Lecturer at Middlesex University in London. We have been teaching Racket for the past 3 years to first year students in CS (class size is approx 140 student) and so far we have assessed students by “observing” their progress on “small competencies”. We call these “Student Obser

Re: [racket] compiling Racket to android and ios apps

2015-02-23 Thread Franco Raimondi
Installing 6.1 on Raspbian is very easy. This is what I've done to install it in /opt: cd /opt wget http://mirror.racket-lang.org/installers/6.1/racket-6.1-src-builtpkgs.tgz tar -xzvf racket-6.1-src-builtpkgs.tgz cd racket-6.1/src mkdir build cd build ../configure make; make install cd /opt sudo

Re: [racket] canonical index of Racket courses? [was: Summer programs learning Racket for a student]

2014-09-30 Thread Franco Raimondi
There is indeed a course at Middlesex, I was planning to add a link to the wiki but I kept postponing. We have described the course in a paper published last year, "A Racket-Based Robot to Teach First-Year Computer Science", http://www.rmnd.net/pubs/els14.pdf. I've added a link to this paper in the

Re: [racket] usb/serial port

2014-09-07 Thread Franco Raimondi
On 7 Sep 2014, at 17:54, Eduardo Costa wrote: > > I am not sure if there a library specifically written in racket for > reading/writing to serial ports, however, you can read/write to character > devices using standard i/o routines. > > Could a member of this list elaborate on this answer? F

Re: [racket] gc crash on raspbian

2014-07-01 Thread Franco Raimondi
I managed to compile v6.0 on Raspbian, let me know if you are interested and I can share it with you via dropbox or something similar. Franco On 1 Jul 2014, at 13:05, David Griffiths wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > Just to report back, I just upgraded to v5.3.5 on the Pi (after a 48hr > build :) an

Re: [racket] Isn't the web application tutorial too advanced?

2014-05-04 Thread Franco Raimondi
Hi Ben, This is a very simple introduction for our first year students, no experience required (hopefully): http://www.rmnd.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/w2-programming.pdf Let me know if this is OK for you or if you spot typos etc. Ignore section 2.3, which requires other material. Franco On

Re: [racket] racket on arm/armel linux

2014-02-26 Thread Franco Raimondi
If it can be of any help: here at Middlesex University we managed to compile the standard sources for 5.93 on a Raspberry Pi (standard raspbian distro). The only thing we had to do was to disable documentation in the configuration step (configure --disable-docs). And then wait a few hours. Rega