Re: [plt-dev] number of HtDP graduates

2009-10-13 Thread Jacob Matthews
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi s...@cs.brown.edu wrote: It is also difficult to maintain due to poor reporting. Maybe you could get a reasonable ballpark estimate by looking at traffic to htdp.org? Especially the pages that actually have book content? -jacob Shriram

Re: [plt-dev] number of HtDP graduates

2009-10-13 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Oct 13, Matthias Felleisen wrote: Eli reported that we had over 1,000,000 unique IP hits on htdp.org for the past five years. What does this tell us? -- Matthias Not much, but I did all the obvious things to make it a conservative estimate. For example, I counted only hits on the book's

Re: [plt-dev] number of HtDP graduates

2009-10-13 Thread Grant Rettke
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com wrote: This doesn't need to pass peer review :-) A Dummies book would probably be enough to justify Scheme. Ironic perhaps? _ For list-related administrative tasks:

Re: [plt-dev] number of HtDP graduates

2009-10-13 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Grant Rettke gret...@acm.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com wrote: This doesn't need to pass peer review :-) A Dummies book would probably be enough to justify Scheme. Ironic perhaps?

Re: [plt-dev] number of HtDP graduates

2009-10-13 Thread Grant Rettke
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:01 AM, David Storrs david.sto...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Grant Rettke gret...@acm.org wrote: A Dummies book would probably be enough to justify Scheme. Ironic perhaps? That's essentially what The Little Schemer is, except without the

Re: [plt-dev] number of HtDP graduates

2009-10-13 Thread Jacob Matthews
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: On Oct 13, Matthias Felleisen wrote: Eli reported that we had over 1,000,000 unique IP hits on htdp.org for the past five years. What does this tell us? -- Matthias Not much, but I did all the obvious things to make it a

Re: [plt-dev] number of HtDP graduates

2009-10-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Eli reported that we had over 1,000,000 unique IP hits on htdp.org for the past five years. What does this tell us? -- Matthias On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Jacob Matthews wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi s...@cs.brown.edu wrote: It is also difficult to