A Functional Introduction To Computer Science

Oh, they are using Racket. I really love that language. I think it's also great that they explain how to work with structures, instead of going the "everything is a list" aproach (the latter is, in my opinion, better suited for advanced students).

Unfortunately, I haven't managed yet to integrate Racket into my daily work. The last time I tried to use it, the resulting (manually optimized) compiled code was as slow as an unoptimized python solution and 10x slower than a manually optimized Java version.

Re: A Functional Introduction To Computer Science

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Post by asicsp » Sun, Jul 02, 2023, 10:12 AM UTC

See also "Teach yourself Computer Science functionally"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36312603 (315 points | 18 days ago | 99 comments)

Re: A Functional Introduction To Computer Science

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Post by FrankyHollywood » Sun, Jul 02, 2023, 10:25 AM UTC

tralarpa wrote: post #6

Oh, they are using Racket. I really love that language. I think it's also great that they explain how to work with structures, instead of going the "everything is a list" aproach (the latter is, in my opinion, better suited for advanced students). Unfortunately, I haven't managed yet to integrate Racket into my daily work. The last time I tried to use it, the resulting (manually optimized) compiled code was as slow a…

I can't believe I have never heard of Racket before, it's 28 years old!

Quite some libraries available too https://github.com/avelino/awesome-racket

Re: A Functional Introduction To Computer Science

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Post by kingkongjaffa » Sun, Jul 02, 2023, 10:26 AM UTC

How to Design Programs is also an intro to programming using Racket as the teaching language https://htdp.org/2023-5-12/Book/index.html

Re: A Functional Introduction To Computer Science

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Post by thu » Sun, Jul 02, 2023, 10:34 AM UTC

FrankyHollywood wrote: post #8

tralarpa wrote: post #6

Oh, they are using Racket. I really love that language. I think it's also great that they explain how to work with structures, instead of going the "everything is a list" aproach (the latter is, in my opinion, better suited for advanced students). Unfortunately, I haven't managed yet to integrate Racket into my daily work. The last time I tried to use it, the resulting (manually optimized) compiled code was as slow a…

I can't believe I have never heard of Racket before, it's 28 years old! Quite some libraries available too https://github.com/avelino/awesome-racket

Maybe you did while it was still called PLT Scheme (supported in DrScheme), although it's called Racket since 13 years.