Nonprogrammer zine

Hi. I made my first zine, then translated it into English.

It's for nonprogrammers who care to learn what programming is, so I am not sure this is right place to share. However, the approach uses Racket (or Scheme) to explain the programming, so I hope I am not too far.

(The source for the zine and for template if someone is interested: Neprogramator/zine - Codeberg.org and ~qeef/pdflatex-zine-template - sourcehut git)

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I think this is a great idea.
I have two questions

  1. Where will you publish this?
  2. How will you evaluate it?

Will you fill in the bank space at the end with next steps? Perhaps a link to download DrRacket and how to take next steps and het help?

Best regards
Stephen
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Fun, and it looks really nice! I wonder if you would be interested in Prabakhar Ragde's "Logic and Computation Intertwined", which builds a simple dependently-typed logical framework in Racket.

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/flaneries/LACI/

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Sure I am. Thank you for the tip.

Thank you.

Where will you publish this?

Not sure I understand this question. It's published online, including the source code.

How will you evaluate it?

I have no much chances other than to ask friends whom I give the zine. I will be happy for suggestions/feedback.

Will you fill in the bank space at the end with next steps? Perhaps a link to download DrRacket and how to take next steps and het help?

Sure it can be done, I didn't think about that to be honest. The zine is originally a kind of summary of czech wikibook. Only the zine is translated, therefore I wanted to share it.

Oh, and I have a question as non-native english guy... When I wanted to shorten "first number" due to lack of space, I used "number-1". "1st-number" would be better, but still too long. Are there any better options nonprogrammers would understand? Thank you!

I think what you have is fine! You could also go with 1st-num, 2nd-num, if you prefer?

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Thank you. If it's fine, I will keep it :slight_smile: