Played more with Racket and the "Realm of Racket" book. The first example has you land a UFO at the bottom of the screen, so I modified that just a hair to land something else:

Kind of interesting that the DrRacket will allow you to enter images like this. Unfortunately …

Played a little more with the functional aspects of Scheme / Racket wit the Shut the Box program:

#lang racket 
(define tiles `(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9))

(define (dice)
    (+ 1 (random 6)))

(define (roll) 
    (list (dice) (dice)))

(define dice-roll (roll))

(define sum-roll (apply + dice-roll))

(define tilelist '(4 …

Spent a little more time today playing with racket and the "Shut the Box" implementation.

It's not much, but it's progress.

(define tiles `(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9))
(define die1 (+ 1 (random 6)))
(define die2 (+ 1 (random 6)))
(define roll (+ die1 die2))

(define tilelist '(4 5 …

Today I had the brilliant idea to do my standard "Hello World" program in Scheme / Racket. So, I present to you the first bits of "Shut the Box" in Racket:

(define tiles `(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9))
(define die1 (+ 1 (random 6)))
(define die2 (+ 1 (random …

Spent part of the day working on shoring up my HTML / CSS skills. I feel like I have a large gap in my ability to put together good-looking sites, but I think part of it is that I compare my sites with some of the best in the business. These …