[racket] racket library for minecraft pi edition

hello, i've been exploring the educational possibilities of connecting a Lisp language to the Minecraft Pi Edition. I started by writing a tutorial using Common Lisp http://www.lincolnix.net/gcentauri/build-tower.html which uses a basic connection API I wrote. This is really my first attempt at a

Re: [racket] racket library for minecraft pi edition

thanks for the reply. I found a short write-up on the API. It shows > > setBlocks(x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2, blockType, blockData) - set lots of > blocks all at the same time by providing 2 sets of co-ordinates (x, y, z) > and fill the gap between with a blockType > > If a similar function is avail

Re: [racket] Request for guidance

I have completed about half of the first edition of HtDP, and also have read most of Realm of Racket, and Land of Lisp as well. I have to say, the first half of HtDP dealing with data structures was the ONLY thing that gave me the fundamental insights into programming that I needed to understand i

Re: [racket] Wasting Time?

sorry matthias and steve, you'll get this twice, but i emailed the list from the wrong address... i agree with the above comments, but you also could check out Douglas Rushkoff's "Program or Be Programmed". In the tradition of Marshall McLuhan's concept of "the medium is the message", understandi

[racket] review my tutorial?

hello all, i wrote a programming tutorial which connects Common Lisp to the Minecraft Pi edition, attempting to illustrate recursion through the process of building a tower. after publishing it on my personal site, I realized no one was likely to ready it, and even if they did, it seemed unlikely

Re: [racket] review my tutorial?

Matthias, thank you so much for your response. Coming to Racket has been exactly what I needed to take an interest in programming and education and find a path that works! I will definitely follow through with learning the 2htdp/universe teachpack (which was on my list anyways), and hopefully I c

[racket] designing animated text-box with universe

hello all, i am trying to design a classic role playing game dialog box that would animate the printing of text one character at a time. Little by little, I have been able to develop this working example, but it doesn't seem to work very well. I am sure part of the problem is that I am calculatin