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• Quick: An Introduction to Racket with Pictures https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html

• More: Systems Programming with Racket https://docs.racket-lang.org/more/index.html

• Realm of Racket’s last chapter, titled “)” or “close paren”.

• F*dging up a Racket: http://www.hashcollision.org/brainfudge/

(I prefer beautiful racket instead, but I guess it is less “raw” because there are so many helpers in the br package)

and finally for redex:

Peg Solitaire:

https://www.leafac.com/prose/playing-the-game-with-plt-redex/

I’m terrified and excited to get my ass handed to me in TWO WEEKS(!!)

Thanks a lot :slightly_smiling_face:

n/p… I really liked the peg solitaire one, even if (because?) it was a bit of a twist on normal redex use.

and check out beautiful racket

Thanks for the kind words about my article :slightly_smiling_face:

And I like Beautiful Racket too.

You might be interested in the other articles I’m writing as well:

https://www.leafac.com/prose/programming-language-theory-explained-for-the-working-programmer--principles-of-programming-languages/

https://www.leafac.com/prose/programming-language-theory-explained-for-the-working-programmer--simple-interpreter/

Paradoxically, they don’t use Redex, but are more in the area of normal Redex use. They do use a quasiquoting & pattern-matching approach which was unambiguously inspired by Redex, though.

oh shit! that was you! I didn’t connect the dots. Yeah… it really helped! I’d tried with the redex tutorial before and it was buggy to the point where I couldn’t get anywhere… and IRC seemed less than empathetic :slightly_smiling_face:

cool. I’ll add those to my reading list. Thanks!

@zenspider I would be happy to help with bug reports about the redex tutorial. I’m not really keeping up with IRC, tho. Maybe open issues on the redex repo?

@robby can you start by getting rid of that background on the redex website? the whole thing seems styled to be unreadable. :stuck_out_tongue:

yeah, it needs work. Unfortunately there is no repo for a pull request for that one, at least for now.

ah… and some of the problem is the code samples aren’t in pre blocks, they’re in <div class="codedisplay">... which means that reader mode, which strips the background to make the rest readable collapses the code to a paragraph

@zenspider: Guess what, it turns out that I’m going to the Racket Summer School. I look forward to meeting you there, I’ve been following your work since I had a job writing Ruby and used minitest :+1: