Realm of Racket

Professor Matthias Felleisen is one of the original authors of the Racket language and a co-author of The Little Schemer and How to Design Programs. In 1995, Felleisen launched the TeachScheme! Project, reaching out to high schools with a radically novel computing curriculum. Felleisen is the 2012 recipient of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) Lifetime Achievement Award as well as ACM's 2009 Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. He is currently a Trustee Professor in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.Conrad Barski has an M.D. from the University of Miami and nearly 20 years of programming experience. The author of Land of Lisp, Barski is also an avid cartoonist, having created the popular alien Lisp mascot and many graphical tutorials.David Van Horn is a research professor at Northeastern University who has programmed in Racket and Scheme for over a decade.Eight students of Northeastern University contributed to Realm of Racket: Forrest Bice, Rose DeMaio, Spencer Florence, Feng-Yun Mimi Lin, Scott Lindeman, Nicole Nussbaum, Eric Peterson, and Ryan Plessner.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface (Hello World)Introduction (Open Paren)Chapter 1: (Getting Started)Chapter 2: (A First Racket Program)Chapter 3: (Basics of Racket)Chapter 4: (Conditions and Decisions)Chapter 41/2: (define define 'define)Chapter 5: (big-bang)Chapter 6: (Recursion Is Easy)Chapter 7: (Land of Lambda)Chapter 8: (Mutant Structs)Chapter 9: (The Values of Loops)Chapter 10: (Dice of Doom)Chapter 11: (Power to the Lazy)Chapter 12: (Artificial Intelligence)Chapter 13: (The World Is Not Enough)Chapter 14: (Hungry Henry)Conclusion. Good-Bye (Close Paren)

"Matthias Felleisen is known for a third way of teaching a language–the fun way. . . A thoroughly enjoyable read."—Debasish Ghosh, author of DSLs in Action