[racket] details on hackathon after racketcon?

[Danny Yoo]

Any details on what we'll be hacking on after Racketcon?
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[Asumu Takikawa]

On 2012-10-03 16:21:10 -0600, Danny Yoo wrote:
> Any details on what we'll be hacking on after Racketcon?

The plan is to hack on small, self-contained improvements such as
documentation improvements, FFI bindings, and web API libraries. We'll
put together a list of concrete suggestions and start putting them on
the wiki soon.

Cheers,
Asumu

[Todd O'Bryan]

Maybe signatures for the teaching languages? Maybe?

[Matthias Felleisen]

That wouldn't help much because none of the 2htdp/* libraries provide checked signatures.

[Stephen Bloch]

On Oct 4, 2012, at 8:33 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:

> That wouldn't help much because none of the 2htdp/* libraries provide checked signatures.

But if we had a good signature system for the teaching languages, we could easily add signatures to 2htdp/*, couldn't we?


Seriously, I'd love to teach with some kind of signature system in the language (not just in comments), but right now we have three or four alternative systems (contracts, signatures, TR, and probably others), none of which has really had the pedagogical bugs worked out.

Stephen Bloch
sbl...@adelphi.edu

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt]

As Asumu said, we're going to tackle small improvements that don't
require lots of design and coordination, and that can be distributed
among lots of people in parallel. Of course, people are free to hack
on whatever they like, but I wouldn't encourage large projects like
revising the teaching languages.

Sam

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[Matthias Felleisen]

Once again: checked signatures are available in ASL with German documentation.

When I know how to integrate them and what I am paying for them, I may change the teaching languages.

[Asumu Takikawa]

On 2012-10-03 21:37:50 -0400, Asumu Takikawa wrote:
> The plan is to hack on small, self-contained improvements such as
> documentation improvements, FFI bindings, and web API libraries. We'll
> put together a list of concrete suggestions and start putting them on
> the wiki soon.

FYI, the wiki page is now up:
https://github.com/plt/racket/wiki/RacketCon-Hackathon-2012

Feel free to add more suggestions, but try to keep them within the realm
of projects where substantial progress can be made in an afternoon.