On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:31 AM BD1 a <acatern...@gmail.com> wrote: > I may be out of place here as I am a total beginner to programing. >
I think hearing from an absolute newcomer is very useful: ignorance is a non-renewable resource! Respectfully, I would also concentrate on Rackets web presence. If I was > to google any of the popular languages, I would find the answer to these > questions in spades, with real life applications, and examples. You can > also compare Pythons website to Rackets. Pythons website seems to be > design more for advertising Python. If I go to the Pythons web page there > is a section “use Python for” in it, it has various topics such as web > development, GUI development, scientific and numeric, with all the > applicable packages needed. If you knew nothing about Python, but where > interested in using it for web development, it easy to see where to go, > etc. > I would be interested to hear more about your experience with Racket's web site, because it tries to include these things, but evidently it did not succeed in communicating them to you. When I go to https://racket-lang.org/ and scroll down about one screen's worth, I see short, runable examples of a few flashy features including web development and GUI applications specifically, with links to tutorials and documentation. Are you looking for more or different material, or was it not clear to you from the presentation on the website that these examples were what you are looking for? I guess I can see some potential issues for discoverability: you have to click to show any prose, even a heading (rather than just code), and introducing the examples with "Make your dream language, or use one of the dozens already available, including these —" may not make it obvious what kind of examples these are, especially to non-Racketeers, and especially since it's possible to write GUI and web programs in Racket without using a special #lang. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
