On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Antti Karttunen <antti.karttu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> > wrote: >> >> A word of caution about *SL error messages. These messages are synthesized >> from fragments of sentences and then a global rewriter re-arranges them to >> improve their meaning based on work done by Guillaume Marceau, Kathi Fisler >> and Shriram (see SIGCSE 2010). The rewriter catches English phrases at the >> moment; you might be best off checking it out first. >> >> Sorry -- one day we'll get this aspect right -- Matthias >> > > Well, thanks in any case! For the moment we decided to proceed with > the English version. > > By the way, would it be a good idea to create a mailing list for > people who use (or intend to use) DrRacket in teaching, as separate > from an ordinary technical discussion? (I mean the main list.) There is plt-edu, low traffic. populated by educators who teach at many levels but mostly high school (14-18), freshman college. You can sign up for it from the Racket web site. > Here in Finland I know at least our team of three people who have > independently chosen (not knowing each other until quite recently) > DrRacket for teaching programming to (almost) complete beginners (not > CS-students), with encouraging results. Yes, I hear this again and again. We should be proactive and support such larger, special-domain user bases better. > It would be nice to have a forum for sharing specific pedagogical tips > when using DrRacket, with people from all over the world. -- Matthias _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev