Hello from a new (not young) beginner -- I'm planning to attend RacketCon [1], and am currently working on the Coursera class offering [2] from the University of British Columbia (UBC) by Prof. Gregor Kiczales: Introduction to Systematic Program Design - Part 1, which uses the BSL in DrRacket. We're steered informally and occasionally to the HtDP/2e [3].
This note just to say if at that conference there's any informal way to meet with like-minded "bystanders", I expect I'd find that interesting ... (lunch table, etc.) I guess I'll go out on a limb here to say I was led to this course of study by a working assumption (not yet proven) that my utter lack of functional programming know-how would probably be nicely addressed by looking into something like Racket, and from that experience I could return to what I have been working on learning for all-things-web-purposes, namely Javascript, and would then be in a stronger position to use its functional approach capabilities. Naive, perhaps. I'm just getting underway, so lots of things yet to be learned. Enjoying the course, looking forward to the (over my head) conference. Best, William Reilly [1] http://con.racket-lang.org/ "*RacketCon* is a public meeting for everyone interested in Racket: developers, contributors, programmers, educators, and by-standers." Sept. 29, Boston. [2] https://www.coursera.org/course/programdesign [3] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
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