num_pages: 320
description: Racket is a descendant of Lisp a programming language renowned for its elegance power and challenging learning curve. But while Racket retains the functional goodness of Lisp it was designed with beginning programmers in mind. Realm of Racket is your introduction to the Racket language.In Realm of Racket  you'll learn to program by creating increasingly complex games. Your journey begins with the Guess My Number game and coverage of some basic Racket etiquette. Next you'll dig into syntax and semantics lists structures and conditionals and learn to work with recursion and the GUI as you build the Robot Snake game. After that it's on to lambda and mutant structs (and an Orc Battle) and fancy loops and the Dice of Doom. Finally you'll explore laziness AI distributed games and the Hungry Henry game.As you progress through the games chapter checkpoints and challenges help reinforce what you've learned. Offbeat comics keep things fun along the way.As you travel through the Racket realm you'Master the quirks of Racket's syntax and semanticsLearn to write concise and elegant functional programsCreate a graphical user interface using the 2htdp/image libraryCreate a server to handle true multiplayer gamesRealm of Racket is a lighthearted guide to some serious programming. Read it to see why Racketeers have so much fun!
language: English
title: Realm of Racket: Learn to Program, One Game at a Time!
publisher: No Starch Press