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Re:If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP? by darkpuma on Saturday January 12, 2019 @07:05AM (#18890858)
I liked it. My least favorite part wasn't the book itself but rather DrRacket. DrRacket's not bad, in fact it has some slick features, but I don't consider it great either. As an IDE it's good, but as a text editor it's poor. But then again my brain has been poisoned by Vim, DrRacket is probably great for young students without preexisting biases like mine.

I've been using racket for almost all of my recreational programming for the past few years but I don't do it with DrRacket.

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Re:If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP? by davidgrenier on Saturday January 12, 2019 @08:13AM (#18891031)
I will agree with you that any programming language that has the editor locked-in (thinking Mathematica) is simply not worth it's salt.
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Re:If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP? by azhenley on Saturday January 12, 2019 @08:21AM (#18891042)
You’re free to use Racket with any editor. DrRacket is just one IDE that you can use that is geared towards learners.
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Re:If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP? by vanderZwan on Saturday January 12, 2019 @08:26AM (#18891055)
Isn't HTDP very DrRacket oriented though?
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Re:If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP? by chongli on Saturday January 12, 2019 @10:04AM (#18891430)
My first, first year CS course [1] was based on HTDP and used DrRacket extensively. I, on the other hand, did all my assignments in Emacs. Worked completely fine for me.

[1] https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs135/

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