Re: [racket-users] My son's game in Racket

2015-08-24 Thread Aaron Hamilton
On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 5:43:38 PM UTC, John Carmack wrote: > He didn't have any difficulty applying the functional image model, but when > you have 20 lines of text drawing composed together, it really looks like you > are just drawing things one after another, but backwards. (define (pip

Re: [racket-users] My son's game in Racket

2015-08-24 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Aug 24, 2015, at 3:40 PM, François Beausoleil wrote: > Le lundi 24 août 2015 12:28:07 UTC-4, John Carmack a écrit : >> ... > > Hello John, > > Thanks for sharing. Played a few levels and had fun :) > > I have a 10 year old daughter. Did your son show interest in programming or > did you

Re: [racket-users] My son's game in Racket

2015-08-24 Thread 'John Clements' via Racket Users
> On Aug 24, 2015, at 11:32 AM, John Carmack wrote: > > The idea that you functionally compose images like this: > > (place-image image-1 x y > (place-image image-2 x y > (place-image image-3 x y))) > > Which draws image1 on top of image2 on top of image 3, which is backwa

Re: [racket-users] My son's game in Racket

2015-08-24 Thread Alexander D. Knauth
Or something like this, with the rackjure package: (require rackjure/threading 2htdp/image) (~>> background-img (place-image image-1 x y) ; the background-img will be inserted as the last argument, because that's what ~>> does (place-image image-2 x y) ; the background + image-1 will be

Re: [racket-users] My son's game in Racket

2015-08-24 Thread Joel McCracken
FYI, I think the Mac version is out of date. Dropbox says the mac installer file is two weeks old, and the windows version is a few hours old. On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:27 PM, John Carmack wrote: > We “released” my 10 year old son’s game that was done in Racket: > www.1k3c.com > > > > I’m stil

RE: [racket-users] My son's game in Racket

2015-08-24 Thread John Carmack
August 24, 2015 12:18 PM To: John Carmack Cc: Racket Users Subject: Re: [racket-users] My son's game in Racket Thanks for sharing. You can let Ryan know that he has his first grandma user, and in that mode, I managed to get a few extra lives. A couple of comments: -- In the past, som

Re: [racket-users] My son's game in Racket

2015-08-24 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
2015-08-24 18:27 GMT+02:00 John Carmack : > We “released” my 10 year old son’s game that was done in Racket: > www.1k3c.com > Tell him, he has done a great job. It has the right game feel. I liked both how the levels progressed slowly in difficulty and that there were so many of them. /Jens Axe

Re: [racket-users] My son's game in Racket

2015-08-24 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Aug 24, 2015, at 12:27 PM, John Carmack wrote: > We “released” my 10 year old son’s game that was done in Racket: www.1k3c.com > > I’m still taking a little heat from my wife for using an obscure language > instead of something mainstream that is broadly used in industry, but I have > not