DrScheme

DrScheme incorporates several features including highlighting of the source of syntax and run-time errors, support for multiple language levels, an algebraic stepper, objects, modules, a GUI library, TCP/IP, and much more. It includes an extensive, hyper-linked help system called Help Desk, available from the Help menu. The tour describes many of these features in greater detail. You can enhance DrScheme with MrSpidey, a static debugger, and MysterX, which adds COM support under Windows. DrScheme Jr is a textual version of DrScheme that offers some of the benefits of DrScheme, but without development tools or graphics.

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How to Design Programs (HtDP)

HtDP is the companion textbook to DrScheme. The book employs Scheme to present a curriculum in modern program design principles. It illustrates these ideas through a wide range of examples that are interesting and practical, including graphical games, Web page construction and file-system modelling. The DrScheme distribution includes libraries for use with HtDP. In turn, HtDP exploits DrScheme features such as the language levels.

The TeachScheme! Project

DrScheme and HtDP are at the heart of this project. Its goal is to transform introductory curricula by presenting computer science in a way that belongs in the core of both a liberal arts and an engineering education. Numerous high schools and a growing number of universities, in several countries, are adopting this material. The Project also offers free summer workshops for teachers interested in learning more about its content.

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