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Best way to learn racket?

3 points| antidoh | 13 years ago | reply

Been spinning my wheels the last couple days, trying to find a foothold to start from. Partly because I don't have a firm understanding of where racket fits in with the larger lisp world (and seeing arguments all over about whether that is or is not a relevant distinction).

I think I'd like a walkthrough/tutorial of the basic language itself to start with, something like the python.org tutorial.

Ultimately I'd like to be using racket (lisp? scheme?) similar to how I use python, for simple scripting with room to go large when needed.

Where would you, the experienced racketeer (schemer? lisper?) tell a newb to start?

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[+] antidoh|13 years ago|reply

Ah: The Racket Guide. http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/

Call a plumber and the faucet starts working.

But the question still stands, where would you point and experienced C-side programmer to start off in racket?

[+] takikawa|13 years ago|reply

There are a few tutorials in the docs too, such as the More[1] tutorial. I agree that it could be nice to have "Racket for X programmers" guides.

If you get stuck, the community on IRC at #racket on Freenode is friendly & active and so is the mailing list.

[1]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/more/index.html