On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Greg Hendershott <greghendersh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sometimes I've wondered if it would help to have someone designated in > a "product marketing" role. Even if it would be only a part-time or > school-seasonal position.
I was thinking exactly this too this past weekend, in the context of CS curriculum and education - I gave a presentation of my RacketUI library at the ACM Southeast conference (http://cs.ua.edu/acmse2012/ ). Based on a quick poll at the beginning of my talk, there were lots of people who taught intro CS but no one had heard of Racket or Program-by-Design. There were other presentations, and people talked about and were familiar with things like Greenfoot, Alice, Python, etc. But I was thinking that PBD needs to get more exposure somehow. I'm not exactly sure how, but it would be nice to have a wider breadth of computing faculty across the nation be at least familiar with the option, even if they choose not to adopt it, or adopt it in some modified form. (On Racket - one of the questions I got after my presentation was that it seemed like the examples I presented involved strings and images, but perhaps this wasn't a good environment for people who want to teach in a context that involves numerical computations? Eyes widened a little when I talked about arbitrary precision integers, exact and inexact arithmetic, built-in complex numbers, etc.) --- nadeem ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
