Re: [OFFTOPIC, but possibly amusing] [was: peasant revolt against Dr Scheme!]

[Matthias Felleisen <matthias@cs.rice.edu>]

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   Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:42:05 -0800
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   > The book's current title is "How to Use Scheme" (meaning 
   > MzScheme). It will cover files, ports, reg-exps, the XML
   > library, the GUI and graphics toolbox, networking (tcp/ip,
   > urls, ...), shell scripting, COM scripting, 
   > modules, units, classes, and a few other things. 
   > 

   Sounds like a fun book to read.  Do you already have this
   information at your fingertips, or will you be interested
   in 'contributed' code examples, etc.?  Might be fun to
   post some code snippets here along the way, sort of akin to
   the "Perl Cookbook" idea...

   Just a thought.

   -Brent

No. Someone else asked whether we consider this an "open source"
project. We do. For HtDP, we had the book on the Web for three or 
four years and routinely trained teachers in how to use it. We asked
for comments and changed the book accordingly. 

I intend to do the same for HtUS. We will post it on htus.org (real soon
now). We will ask for your feedback and, now that I know I have volunteers,
we will ask for code samples. 

The book is ****not**** a cookbook in the sense of the Perl
cookbook. Instead it will assume that you understand HtDP (not necessarily
having read it). It will also contain a summary of the basic HtDP topics
so that you can approach it. But the style will be pedagogic. 

As far as cookbook is concerned, I am hoping that at first we might find
volunteers to write a cook-book style supplement as Web extensions to the
book. Eventually someone will serve as an editor and pull things together 
as a "paper" book.

-- Matthias