PLT Scheme is a programming language based on Scheme, produced by "PLT". It consists of four primary components:
Matthias Felleisen founded PLT in the mid 1990s, first as a research group, soon after as a project dedicated to the production of pedagogic materials for novice programmers (lectures, exercises/projects, software). In January 1995, the group decided to develop a pedagogic programming environment. Matthew Flatt cobbled together MrEd (a...
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PLT Scheme is a programming language based on Scheme, produced by "PLT". It consists of four primary components:
Matthias Felleisen founded PLT in the mid 1990s, first as a research group, soon after as a project dedicated to the production of pedagogic materials for novice programmers (lectures, exercises/projects, software). In January 1995, the group decided to develop a pedagogic programming environment. Matthew Flatt cobbled together MrEd (a pun and a tease) from libscheme, wxWidgets, and a number of other free systems. Over the year, Robby Findler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Cormac Flanagan, and some others produced DrScheme, a programming environment for novice Scheme programmers and a research environment for soft typing.
In parallel, the team started conducting workshops for high school teachers, training them in program design and functional programming. Field tests with these teachers and their students provided essential clues for the direction of the development.
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