Re: [Fsedu-developers] Proposal for course: Scheme

[bruno]

Sadly, gcompris does not support scheme yet ;)

It would be great if your scheme drawing program example was done as a
scheme plugin for gcompris. BTW, gcompris uses the gnome canvas.

In the same direction, the gcompris team is working currently on the
python bindings for gcompris.

So just a call to the scheme community if somebody want to write the
bindings for gcompris, he/she is welcome.

Bruno.

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Le mar 01/04/2003 à 18:54, Peter Minten a écrit :
> Hi folks,
> 
> Scheme is the primary extension language of GNU, and it's simple (only 8
> language primitives needed). It also does numbers and strings pretty perfectly
> (for example it does not make a distinction between integers and floats but
> between exact numbers and non-exact numbers). That's why I believe it needs to
> be in the Curriculum. The advantages of Scheme also make it easy to write a 
> book
> about it. So I'm going to do that.
> 
> I will use Texinfo in the book, mainly to try how good it is in writing books.
> The Scheme dialect used is, of course, Guile. The book will consist of two
> parts: theory and practice. The theory covers roughly the following topics:
> * Data types (including conses and vectors)
> * Functions
> * Control functions
> * Structures
> * Objects
> 
> The practice part consists of writing scheme scripts for two programs. The 
> first
> program is a small GTK canvas window which has a scheme interface, the second
> program is GNU Robots. 
> 
> Two competition will be attached to the practice, one for each program. The
> SchemeCanvas competition is about who writes the coolest scheme drawing 
> program
> and the Robots competition about who writes the best robot. I believe some
> competitions make the books more interesting and also provide a reason for
> practicing hard.
> 
> Note that the book will not cover writing Guile interfaces to C code, that's
> something for another book.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
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