Re: [racket-users] I've started work on a Racket project book

2017-06-05 Thread Vincent Nys
Thank you, everyone, for the feedback! Comparing even more solutions should be great for learning, so I'll think about an "official" channel for that. Right now, I need some more content first (like the rest of Chapter 1 :-)) but I've opened a ticket so I won't forget. "Emu" is about 40% becaus

Re: [racket-users] I've started work on a Racket project book

2017-06-04 Thread Daniel Prager
Hi Vincent Very nice! I like the approach of giving exercises along the way, with multiple solutions to then compare and review against. I wonder whether it would be worth having a mechanism whereby readers can share and discuss their solutions. Also: why "Emu"? Dan -- You received this mess

Re: [racket-users] I've started work on a Racket project book

2017-06-02 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
This is great! I'm excited to read more of your book. Sam On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Vincent Nys wrote: > Hi, > > I recently read Beautiful Racket and I found it very inspiring, so I started > my own Racket project book using Pollen. I'm not a great programmer, but > that's the point. > >

[racket-users] I've started work on a Racket project book

2017-06-02 Thread Vincent Nys
Hi, I recently read Beautiful Racket and I found it very inspiring, so I started my own Racket project book using Pollen. I'm not a great programmer, but that's the point. Please have a look at it at http://users.telenet.be/vincent-nys/index.html. Feedback is welcome, preferably through https