SICP Goodness - Orgmode + Racket + SICP = ๐Ÿ’•

How to setup orgmode to run racket code from SICP

Guowei Lv

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Do you think Computer Science equals building websites and mobile apps?

Are you feeling that you are doing repetitive and not so intelligent work?

Are you feeling a bit sick about reading manuals and copy-pasting code and keep poking around until it works all day long?

Do you want to understand the soul of Computer Science?

If yes, read SICP!!!

Recently, I started to write down study notes in one org file. And I think why not write the scheme code from SICP in org mode too. But there is a problem: ob-scheme does not work well with mit scheme, that means C-c C-c does not execute the code block and throws some error instead.

After some research I found that I can use Racket + sicp package.

  1. install Racket.
  2. Then install sicp package through DrRacket
  3. Install ob-racket 
    dotspacemacs-additional-packages '(
  ; ...
  (ob-racket :location
            (recipe :fetcher github :repo "DEADB17/ob-racket"))
)
  4. Configure it by adding the following code. 
    (defun dotspacemacs/user-config ()
  ; ...
  (use-package ob-racket
    :after org
    :pin manual
    :config
    (append '((racket . t) (scribble . t)) org-babel-load-languages))
)

Enjoy!

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