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Realm of Racket

by Conrad Barski M.D., David Van Horn, Eight Students of Northeastern University, Matthias Felleisen

June 2013

Intermediate to advanced

312 pages

6h 47m

English

No Starch Press

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Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface (Hello World)
Why Would I Want to Learn About Racket?Who Should Read This Book?What Teaching Approach Is Used?Can I Skip Chapters?Anything Else I Should Know?
Introduction (Open Paren)
(.1 What Makes Lisp So Cool and Unusual?(.2 Where Did Lisp Come From?(.3 What Does Lisp Look Like?(.4 Where Does Racket Come From?(.5 What Is This Book About?Halt—Chapter Checkpoint
1. (Getting Started)
1.1 Readying Racket1.2 Interacting with RacketRaise—Chapter Checkpoint
2. (A First Racket Program)
2.1 The Guess My Number Game2.2 Defining Variables2.3 Basic Racket Etiquette2.4 Defining Functions in RacketA Function for GuessingFunctions for Closing InThe Main FunctionResume—Chapter Checkpoint
3. (Basics of Racket)
3.1 Syntax and Semantics3.2 The Building Blocks of Racket Syntax3.3 The Building Blocks of Racket SemanticsBooleansSymbolsNumbersStrings3.4 Lists in RacketCONS CellsFunctions for CONS CellsLists and List FunctionsThe CONS FunctionThe LIST FunctionThe FIRST and REST FunctionsNested Lists3.5 Structures in RacketStructure BasicsNesting StructuresStructure TransparencyInterrupt—Chapter Checkpoint
4. (Conditions and Decisions)
4.1 How to Ask4.2 The Conditionals: IF and BeyondOne Thing at a Time with IFThe Special Form that Does It All: CONDA First Taste of Recursion4.3 Cool Tricks with ConditionalsUsing the Stealth Conditionals AND and ORUsing Functions that Return More than Just the Truth4.4 Equality Predicates, Once More4.5 Comparing and TestingWriting a TestWhat Is Not a TestTesting in the Real WorldMore Testing FacilitiesCall-with-current-continuation—Chapter Checkpoint
4½. (define define ’define)
4½.1 Module-Level DefinitionsVariable DefinitionsFunction Definitions4½.2 Local DefinitionsAbort—Chapter Checkpoint
5. (big-bang)
5.1 Graphical User Interface5.2 Landing a UFO5.3 Using big-bang: Syntax and Semantics5.4 Guessing GooeyThe DataThe Main FunctionKey-EventsRenderingTime to StopExit—Chapter CheckpointChapter Challenges

6. (Recursion Is Easy)
6.1 Robot Snake6.2 A Data Representation for the Snake Game6.3 The Main Function6.4 Clock TicksEating and GrowingSlitheringRotting Goo6.5 Key-Events6.6 Rendering6.7 End Game6.8 Auxiliary FunctionsReturn—Chapter CheckpointChapter Challenges
7. (Land of Lambda)
7.1 Functions as Values7.2 Lambda7.3 Higher-Order Fun7.4 Two More Higher-Order Functions7.5 Derive This!7.6 applyBreak—Chapter Checkpoint
8. (Mutant Structs)
8.1 Chad’s First Battle8.2 Orc Battle8.3 Setting Up the World, a First Step8.4 Action: How Structs Really Work8.5 More Actions, Setting Up the World for Good8.6 Ready, Set, big-bang8.7 Initializing the Orc World8.8 Rendering the Orc World8.9 The End of the World8.10 Actions, A Final LookThrow—Chapter CheckpointChapter Challenges
9. (The Values of Loops)
9.1 FOR Loops9.2 Multiple Values9.3 Back to FOR/FOLD9.4 More on LoopsWaitpid—Chapter Checkpoint
10. (Dice of Doom)
10.1 The Game Tree10.2 Dice of Doom, The Game10.3 Designing Dice of Doom: Take OneFilling in the BlanksSimplifying the RulesEnd of GameControlling the Game10.4 How Game Trees Work10.5 Game States and Game Trees for Dice of Doom10.6 Roll the Dice10.7 Rendering the Dice World10.8 Input Handling10.9 Creating a Game TreeThe Game TreeNeighborsAttacks10.10 The End GameKill—Chapter CheckpointChapter Challenges
11. (Power to the Lazy)
11.1 Doomsday11.2 Lazy Evaluation11.3 Memoized Computations11.4 Racket Can Be LazyDelay—Chapter Checkpoint
12. (Artificial Intelligence)
12.1 An Intelligent Life-form12.2 Lazy Games12.3 Adding Artificial IntelligenceStop-when—Chapter CheckpointChapter Challenges
13. (The World Is Not Enough)
13.1 What Is a Distributed Game?13.2 The DataMessagesPreviously Fabricated StructuresPackagesBundlesMailiworld Structures13.3 The Network Postal Service13.4 Organizing Your Universe13.5 Distributed GuessThe State of the Client and the State of the ServerThe ServerThe ClientRunning the GameError—Chapter CheckpointChapter Challenges
14. (Hungry Henry)
14.1 King Henry the Hungry14.2 Hungry Henry, the Game14.3 Two United States14.4 Henry’s UniverseMessage Data and StructuresComplex Numbers Are Good PositionsA Day in the Life of a ServerA Day in the Life of a Client14.5 State of the UnionState of HenryState of the House14.6 Main, Take ClientThe Appetizer StateThe Entree State14.7 Main, Take ServerThe Join State and Network EventsThe Join State and Tick EventsThe Play State and Network EventsThe Play State and Tick Events14.8 See Henry RunOn-disconnect—Chapter CheckpointChapter Challenges
Conclusion. Good-Bye (Close Paren)
).1 Run Racket Run).2 Racket Is a Programming Language).3 Racket Is a Metaprogramming Language).4 Racket Is a Programming-Language Programming LanguageSo Long
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