Racket allows programmers to add new syntactic constructs in the same way that other languages permit the formulation of procedures, methods, or classes. All you need to do is formulate a simple …

Running raco docs (or Racket Documentation on Windows or Mac OS) may open a different page with local and user-specific documentation, including documentation for installed packages.

Chapter 2 provides a brief introduction to Racket. From Chapter 3 on, this guide dives into details— covering much of the Racket toolbox, but leaving precise details to The Racket Reference and other …

The distribution includes pre-built, platform-independent bytecode; it installs much faster than plain source, and it is also compatible with fast installs of additional Racket packages.

For experienced programmers, to continue touring Racket from a systems-oriented perspective instead of pictures, your next stop is More: Systems Programming with Racket. To instead start learning …

Editors like Emacs offer a Racket or Scheme mode with similar indentation support. Re-indenting not only makes the code easier to read, it gives you extra feedback that your parentheses match in the …

The Racket Guide describes the rest of the Racket language, which is much bigger than the learning-oriented languages of the textbook. Since you learned functional programming from the textbook, …

At the same time, instead of having to say “PLT's main variant of Scheme,” programmers can now simply say “Racket” to refer to the specific descendant of Scheme that powers PLT's languages and …

Racket Packages These are the packages in the official package catalog. raco pkg install package-name installs a package. You can add your own packages to the index.

Racket’s and and or are syntactic forms, rather than functions. Unlike a function, the and and or forms can skip evaluation of later expressions if an earlier one determines the answer.