Re: [OFFTOPIC, but possibly amusing] [was: peasant revolt against DrScheme!]

[Michael Vanier <mvanier@bbb.caltech.edu>]

> From: Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk@cs.brown.edu>
> 
> Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> 
> > Jerry is also wrong about us not teaching `useful' things with
> > Scheme. Pretty soon, you will see extensions of HtDP that show how a fourth
> > week student can create Web trees and maintain Web sites with Scheme. Try
> > this in Perl or C. Pretty soon we will show how kids can write CGI
> > scripts after 8 weeks. 
> 
> Jerzy is right.  His point was not about the teaching but about the
> showing.  It's not enough that you and I do this -- we need to get the 
> first year student itching to write a CGI script to also do this.  But 
> that is exactly why we're putting together HtUS (How to Use Scheme).
> 
> In a nutshell.
> 
> Shriram
> 

A new book?  Any details?  Or is this still in the planning stages?

Mike