The new design looks good on my iPhone and on desktop. It is a good
improvement over the old site.
To add to Neil's comment about dividing into two sections for experienced
programmers and educational outreach for aspiring programmers. One issue I
often see with others when talking about Racket
HtDP is how I learned to program correctly *after* I got my bachelor's in
CS. I still recommend it to coworkers and other experienced programmers so
they can start to learn good coding habits.
On Tuesday, August 20, 2013, Alexander McLin wrote:
The new design looks good on my iPhone and on
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Neil Van Dyke n...@neilvandyke.org wrote:
Sam and Asumu, this looks like significant improvement in several ways,
thank you.
Two comments:
* There's a lot of stuff for a home page. I don't know whether this is good
or bad, but it's noticeable.
This is
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote at 08/20/2013 09:40 AM:
Are you referring to the Quick tutorial? I don't think that's aimed
at children, per se -- just people who have no experience w/ Racket.
OK, I can only offer a single data point: to me, one glance at the
Quick tutorial looks like
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Neil Van Dyke n...@neilvandyke.org wrote:
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote at 08/20/2013 09:40 AM:
Are you referring to the Quick tutorial? I don't think that's aimed
at children, per se -- just people who have no experience w/ Racket.
OK, I can only offer a
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote at 08/20/2013 09:52 AM:
Can you say more about why this is? Is it the pictures?
Yes, I scroll down the page and I see pictures and a simple picture
language, and it seems to be using them to introduce some pretty simple
and familiar concepts, so I assume it's
I dislike the switch to something that looks less unique -- this feels
more like yet-another-site of a language. I can't really put a finger
on what makes that, but I think that the big factor is the dark
header. (I didn't like it when Matthew initially suggested it, but I
think it ended up
On Aug 19, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
3. It puts more info on the first page.
To my surprise, I like it.
4. The font size is larger, which I think makes it much more readable.
Speaking as an old person who has arrived in the age of reading
I _really_ like the idea of giving it a fresh redesign and including
more information on the home page.
(comment (for-meta 1 #EOF
In a previous life I've participated in some web site redesigns. In my
experience people have many opinions with great reasoning, as well as
style preferences. It can
One I encourage us to use was Google Web Optimizer (free).
Typo there. I meant, One thing I encouraged us to use... in that
past life. We found it helpful.
(It's not really my role to encourage Racket doing this. Instead I
wanted to point it out as a possible option.)
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at
30 minutes ago, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
All in all, I really like the idea of renovating our home page. What
I would like to see is that we get
* a distinct home page
* one that brings across that Racket is full spectrum
technically -- you can gradually migrate from untyped to
And a major bug (chrome, now on linux): resizing the browser doesn't
reposition the text in the middle.
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
And a major bug (chrome, now on linux): resizing the browser doesn't
reposition the text in the middle.
Can you be more specific, perhaps with a screenshot? I just tried
this with Chromium on Linux and it repositioned just
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
Just now, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
And a major bug (chrome, now on linux): resizing the browser doesn't
reposition the text in the middle.
Can
Just now, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
* The noise background image is still at the previous place
which is now completely bogus.
I don't understand what's wrong with the background image. The
problem with the
Apologies if this has been mentioned already (too much to read), but IMHO
the sections are too close to one another. I'd personally add more
padding-top to the h2, even up to 1.5em. Some h2 section headers
(Documentation, Learning, Community) are also too close from their section
body IMO too. At
On Tue, Aug 20 2013, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote at 08/20/2013 09:52 AM:
Can you say more about why this is? Is it the pictures?
Yes, I scroll down the page and I see pictures and a simple picture
language, and it seems to be using them to introduce some pretty
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz j...@gnu.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20 2013, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote at 08/20/2013 09:52 AM:
Can you say more about why this is? Is it the pictures?
Yes, I scroll down the page and I see pictures and a simple picture
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
I dislike the switch to something that looks less unique -- this feels
more like yet-another-site of a language. I can't really put a finger
on what makes that, but I think that the big factor is the dark
header. (I
An hour ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz j...@gnu.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20 2013, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
Yes, I scroll down the page and I see pictures and a simple
picture language, and it seems to be using them to introduce some
pretty
An hour ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
I dislike the switch to something that looks less unique -- this
feels more like yet-another-site of a language. I can't really
put a finger on what makes that, but I think that
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
An hour ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
I dislike the switch to something that looks less unique -- this
feels more like yet-another-site of a
A few minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
A quick idea that popped up today re the books: have a book bar as
in the erlang page, but with popups that have the book
descriptions. It can be much less intrusive while
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
A few minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
A quick idea that popped up today re the books: have a book bar as
in the erlang page, but with popups
A few minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
A few minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote:
A quick idea that popped up today re the books: have a
On Aug 19, 2013, at 9:17 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
This looks fantastic! Thanks!
+1
I really like the programmable programming language slogan.
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On Wed, Aug 21 2013, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz j...@gnu.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20 2013, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote at 08/20/2013 09:52 AM:
Can you say more about why this is? Is it the pictures?
Yes, I scroll down
Eli wrote:
Semi-Quick: take Prabhakar's intro (cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/tyr/) and
make it terse enough to fit a single (longish) page. I think that
this is a fine choice for an aspiring hacker -- the only part that
is missing, the advanced section, is probably the part that should
at
Recently I (with assistance from Asumu) have spent some time drafting
a revised home page for Racket. A revised web page will nicely
complement the big upcoming release, I hope. You can see the draft
here, which is ready for people to try out:
http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/samth/new-web/
Some
Fantastic!
The non-code font shows up rasterized on my phone (iPhone 4s running
iOS 5.1.1), while the code font looks fine. Both fonts look right on my
mini-tablet (Nexus 7).
At Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:39:54 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
Recently I (with assistance from Asumu) have spent some
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote:
Fantastic!
The non-code font shows up rasterized on my phone (iPhone 4s running
iOS 5.1.1), while the code font looks fine. Both fonts look right on my
mini-tablet (Nexus 7).
That's very odd. Both fonts are loaded from
I get a Go to the Choose page to select fonts page.
But reloading the draft Racket page (should have tried that in the
first place) seems to have fixed the problem.
At Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:26:23 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote:
I get a Go to the Choose page to select fonts page.
But reloading the draft Racket page (should have tried that in the
first place) seems to have fixed the problem.
Ok, great. I think there are more sophisticated things
Some quick observations.
on Chromium Version 23.0.1271.97 Ubuntu 12.04 (23.0.1271.97-0ubuntu0.12.04.1):
- broken links: download, research
- only 2 examples? :) how come some got cut?
- web scraper example is cut off when clicking ? Maybe make the
overlay window variable width?
on mobile
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
Recently I (with assistance from Asumu) have spent some time drafting
a revised home page for Racket. A revised web page will nicely
complement the big upcoming release, I hope. You can see the draft
here, which
This looks fantastic! Thanks!
Robby
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
sa...@cs.indiana.eduwrote:
Recently I (with assistance from Asumu) have spent some time drafting
a revised home page for Racket. A revised web page will nicely
complement the big upcoming release, I
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 05:39:54PM -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
Recently I (with assistance from Asumu) have spent some time drafting
a revised home page for Racket. A revised web page will nicely
complement the big upcoming release, I hope. You can see the draft
here, which is ready for
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