Hi Ben, This is a very simple introduction for our first year students, no experience required (hopefully): http://www.rmnd.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/w2-programming.pdf Let me know if this is OK for you or if you spot typos etc. Ignore section 2.3, which requires other material.
Franco On 4 May 2014, at 12:35, Ben <yfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you, Danny. You've already done a great job. Just not suitable for me. > As you have said, I've never done any serious web development before. Maybe > your tutorial serves experienced developers well. > > > And a small typo: In section "7 Share and Share Alike", there's a > `insert-blog-post!` which probably should be `blog-insert-post!`. > > > Hope that I'm not bringing too much work for you. > > Ben > > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Danny Yoo <d...@hashcollision.org> wrote: > > All the way down to Advanced Control Flow part, my confusion accumulated to > > a point that I thought I was not ready for the tutorial. Then I decided to > > give up. > > Ok, that was useful feedback! I'll try to think about how the points > may be addressed. > > For one of the comments you made about render-blog-page taking in a > parameter that it does not use, yes, you're absolutely right. Thank > you! I don't know how I missed that one. When I have time, I'll try > to get a patch submitted to correct the dead code issue. > > For the other issues you're pointing out, that might be a bit harder > to fix without rethinking the section and more major reworking of that > material. What you're saying is that the send/suspend/dispatch > section is not introducing the concept well. On re-reading it, I > think you're right. I wrote that section it with the perspective of > someone who had done web development in the past, and that is showing > through in that section. My apologies! > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
