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Re:Ask HN: What's the best material to learn Racket? by joshuata on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:34PM (#12169246)
One of the best resources I've found is Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation by Shriram Krishnamurthi[1]. It walks you through building a small interpreter and language in Racket. Not only does it teach Racket, but it helps understand how and why the language works.

[1] https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best material to learn Racket? by michaelsbradley on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:02PM (#12169047)
How to Design Programs, Second Edition[1] is a good resource for learning how to model and program in a style that will translate well to full-blown Racket. See also Realm of Racket[2].

The Racket Cheat Sheet[3] is handy, and provides some useful links at the top (cf. "Sites", "Community").

[1] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

[2] http://realmofracket.com/

[3] http://docs.racket-lang.org/racket-cheat/

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best material to learn Racket? by brudgers on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @12:44AM (#12170575)
I took this course the first time Kiczales taught it online. That was on Coursera's platform in 2013.

It would be my suggestion.

https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-systematic-program-desig...

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best material to learn Racket? by zerr on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @11:24AM (#12173561)
Does anyone use Racket in the wild? For real projects, not counting the Racket team.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best material to learn Racket? by mabo on Thursday July 28, 2016 @06:37AM (#12179443)
The software running HN is written in the Arc language [1], whose interpreter is written in Racket.

[1]: http://arclanguage.org/

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