Re: [racket] Where to start programming for a 10 year old?

2013-08-24 Thread Hugh S. Myers
Why not try something expressly designed for the task? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) --hsm On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Grant Rettke wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Matthias Felleisen > wrote: > > I don't see how either Scratch or Bootstrap can del

Re: [racket] music mini-language

2013-08-09 Thread Hugh S. Myers
Probably easiest. For a real challenge, implement an appropriate subset of lily (Google it: lily music language) --hsm p.s. seems to me there are arduino/pi addons with more than single voicing no? On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Anyone currently working with music mini-

Re: [racket] Why experienced programmers don’t use comments?

2013-07-10 Thread Hugh S. Myers
Might want to Google "Knuth +Literate Programming" or just "Literate Programming" His book (collection of articles as I remember) discusses the aforementioned problems and his solution... On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:34:16PM +0800, Ben Duan wr