Racket School 2018

Matthias Felleisen, Matthew Flatt, Stephen Chang, Matthew Butterick, Robby Findler, Jay McCarthy

This summer school introduces attendees to the Racket way of language-oriented programming and language building.

The table below presents a concise summer school schedule. Most sessions will consist of a lecture part and a hands-on lab. Our goal is to lecture for less than 90 minutes and to give you at least 120 minutes of lab time. The lectures will introduce basic ideas. The labs will provide you with a chance to get your hands dirty with practical exercises on the lecture topics.

After a brief motivational overview lecture on Monday morning, the first four days are dedicated to the corner stones of building languages: compile-time functions, languages as modules, typed languages, and ugly syntax. On Friday, we will slow down a bit: Jay McCarthy, Matthew Flatt, Robby Findler, and Matthew Butterick will give lectures on some of the languages they have built, and you will have a chance to ask questions/talk to the staff in the long breaks.

		Morning (9:00 – 12:30)		Afternoon (13:30 – 17:00)
Monday		Racket and Language-oriented Programming		Parsing Syntax, Syntax Classes
lab sessions		Lab Syntax, More Syntax, ...		Lab ... and Yet More Syntax
Tuesday		Building a Language		Completing the Language
lab sessions		Lab My First Language		Lab My First Real Language
Wednesday		Lexing and Parsing		Building an Ugly Language
lab sessions		Lab Parsing Modules		Lab My First Ugly Language
Thursday		Types and Type Checking		Building a Typed Language with Macros and Turnstile
lab sessions		Lab My First Typed Language		Lab My Second Typed Language
Friday		Language Gems I		Language Gems II
lab sessions				Good Bye

Figure 1: Workshop schedule