Re: [racket-users] Newb question....About "How to Design Programs" book

2019-11-24 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
First, I strongly recommend the second edition, which is what you get at htdp.org. In that case, you'll do many things differently with respect to teachpacks, but the ideas will be very similar. Second, when you choose "Add Teachpack" from the "Language" menu in DrRacket, you should see three

Re: [racket-users] Newb question....About "How to Design Programs" book

2019-11-24 Thread Michael Burke
Thank you, Sam- I'm apparently reading a pdf version published in 2002 (Copyright 2001 Third Printing). Of course, it still refers to DrScheme and Scheme. Is there a newer one? I'm at Exercise 2.2.1, converting Fahrenheit to Celsius. The exercise calls for installing the teachpack

Re: [racket-users] Newb question....About "How to Design Programs" book

2019-11-24 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
Which edition of the book are you using? And can you point to where in the book you ran into trouble, and what happened? The full book is online, so a link to the section would be very helpful. Sam On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 9:28 PM Michael Burke wrote: > > I'm sure this has been asked and

[racket-users] Newb question....About "How to Design Programs" book

2019-11-24 Thread Michael Burke
I'm sure this has been asked and answered, but are their any current descriptions of how people are adjusting to the book, "How to Design Programs"? I ran into a problem on the first little exercise that required me to use a teachpack. Surely someone has a lit of work-around for this? Thanks,