On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:51 AM <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > 3. Which brings me to to the biggest obstacle. > > — beginners make mistakes > — languages must explain mistakes > — beginners better understand these explanations > > Yes to all three of your points. I was thinking about your last point in my first exploration, and error handling/reporting is something that is at the front of my mind as I look at things like Pyret's sanitizers, as well as the many/manifest ways that I see students struggle/fail with R. I don't think I'll be able to "solve" this in the first instance, but keeping centered the lived experience of the novice when learning to work with data (which often comes in "from the wild," and is not consistent/reliable/etc.), how to manage that messiness, and how to report back in a learning-centric way when they encounter difficulty is going to be 1) hard and 2) critical.
Which is perhaps a reflection/restatement/variation of what your last point. I'm generally familiar with the broad space in which Guillaume's work is situated, and have seen in presented/read it. So, yes. And, thank you for the pointer to the rewriter library. The Racket stack is rich enough at this point that I forget the wealth of tools that are available. Cheers, M -- 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.
