Re: [racket-users] Beautiful Racket v1.0

[Matthias Felleisen]

> On Oct 22, 2017, at 5:45 PM, 'John Clements' via Racket Users 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Oct 22, 2017, at 04:30, Gour  wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 02:04:53 -0700 (PDT)
>> Vincent Nys  wrote:
>> 
>>> Congrats! I've gone through all the chapters and it has been the most
>>> entertaining programming book I have ever read. It's been practical,
>>> too, as I have already used bits of it in a medium-sized (first)
>>> Racket project. I would gladly buy it and will recommend it to many
>>> of my co-workers.
>> 
>> I want to (finally) start learning/using Racket and have Realm of Racket
>> in *.epub format, but wonder which one you find as more suitable for beginner
>> not having any experience with Lisp/Scheme/Racket?
> 
> I am not personally a huge fan of the mutation-heavy approach of Realm of 
> Racket. Please, correct me if I got the wrong impression from the first few 
> exercises. For me, I think that Beautiful Racket is a better choice. Depends 
> a lot on you, though.


Realm is for people who cross over from other languages or teachings. It is 
also a follow-up to HtDP, teaching programming in Racket not design of 
programs. I consider it a bridge for Racket beginners between HtDP and Beauty. 


Heavily biased — Matthias, co-author 



> And, of course, I do have to mention HtDP, which is structured as a textbook 
> and is really about learning to program, not learning Racket, but is a really 
> extraordinary book.
> 
> John
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> Gour
>> 
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Re: [racket-users] Beautiful Racket v1.0

['John Clements' via Racket Users]

> On Oct 22, 2017, at 04:30, Gour  wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 02:04:53 -0700 (PDT)
> Vincent Nys  wrote:
> 
>> Congrats! I've gone through all the chapters and it has been the most
>> entertaining programming book I have ever read. It's been practical,
>> too, as I have already used bits of it in a medium-sized (first)
>> Racket project. I would gladly buy it and will recommend it to many
>> of my co-workers.
> 
> I want to (finally) start learning/using Racket and have Realm of Racket
> in *.epub format, but wonder which one you find as more suitable for beginner
> not having any experience with Lisp/Scheme/Racket?

I am not personally a huge fan of the mutation-heavy approach of Realm of 
Racket. Please, correct me if I got the wrong impression from the first few 
exercises. For me, I think that Beautiful Racket is a better choice. Depends a 
lot on you, though.

And, of course, I do have to mention HtDP, which is structured as a textbook 
and is really about learning to program, not learning Racket, but is a really 
extraordinary book.

John

> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Gour
> 
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> 
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Re: [racket-users] Beautiful Racket v1.0

[Dmitry Igrishin]

2017-03-16 3:28 GMT+03:00 Matthew Butterick :

> I'm very pleased to announce that Beautiful Racket, my book about making
> languages with Racket (that I spoke about at the last RacketCon) is now
> officially released:
>
> http://beautifulracket.com
>
> Special thanks to chief amigo Matthew Flatt for writing a very kind
> foreword.
>
> More broadly, thank you to everyone who has helped make Racket such a
> fantastic and amazing tool. It has absolutely changed my life for the
> better. The book is very much a tribute to all your wonderful work. By
> sharing my enthusiasm and experience, I hope that the book brings many more
> recruits into Team Racket.
>
> Macros! Language extensibility! Let's rock!
>
> (And of course, if you find problems, let me know.)
>

Hello Matthew,

Congratulations! Thank you for good work! But I have a problem with Google
Translate. It seems that something wrong with layout.
Please, see the attachment with the screenshot.

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Re: [racket-users] Beautiful Racket v1.0

[Alexis King]

This is wonderful. I have not read through everything, but the bits that
I have read are well-written, insightful, and fun. I don’t know if a
book like this is enough to get people interested in building DSLs, but
if it isn’t, I’m not sure what is. I’m a tiny bit sad (or should I say
“bummed out”?) that BR eschews syntax-parse for the simpler syntax-case
patterns, but if that’s the only nit I can find to pick, it’s a good
sign.

Most of what I could say has already been said by Matthew Flatt in the
foreword, so I will not be redundant here, but I do want to thank you
for your efforts to provide a wonderful resource for Racketeers both old
and new.

> On Mar 15, 2017, at 17:28, Matthew Butterick  wrote:
> 
> I'm very pleased to announce that Beautiful Racket, my book about
> making languages with Racket (that I spoke about at the last
> RacketCon) is now officially released:
> 
> http://beautifulracket.com
> 
> Special thanks to chief amigo Matthew Flatt for writing a very kind
> foreword.
> 
> More broadly, thank you to everyone who has helped make Racket such a
> fantastic and amazing tool. It has absolutely changed my life for the
> better. The book is very much a tribute to all your wonderful work. By
> sharing my enthusiasm and experience, I hope that the book brings many
> more recruits into Team Racket.
> 
> Macros! Language extensibility! Let's rock!
> 
> (And of course, if you find problems, let me know.)

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Re: [racket-users] Beautiful Racket v1.0

[Daniel Prager]

Bravo Matthew!

Great stuff.

I look forward to buying it and using the payment to help motivate me to
work through *all* the goodness.


Cheers

Dan

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