Simply Installing Simply Scheme

Warning: the v1 package is deprecated

If you are using DrRacket (the successor to DrScheme), please use the newest (v2) Simply Scheme package from PLaneT. See the documentation for installation instructions. Thanks!

This is an update to my deprecated Three-step program to set up simply-teachpack guide.

Note for hackers: Source code for the program I used to help convert simply.scm to simply-scheme.ss is in this tarball.

This guide should help you get DrScheme to automagically load up Simply Scheme support definitions at startup time.

For recent versions of DrScheme (v300+)

For recent versions of DrScheme, I've prepared a package using DrScheme's PLaneT package mangagement system. I don't have screenshots of the installation procedure yet, but here's a step-by-step-guide.

Start DrScheme.
From the Language menu, select the Choose Language... item. Switch the language level to PLT / Pretty Big.
In the top definition window pane, enter the following expression:
(require (planet "simply-scheme.ss" ("dyoo" "simply-scheme.plt" 1 1)))
and press the Run button. Although there's no visual confirmation, the tool should be installed. (I will amend this in the next version of the package.)
Restart DrScheme.
From the Language menu, select the Choose Language... item again. This time, switch the language level to the new entry Simply Scheme.
Press the Run button. If you see something like:
```
Welcome to DrScheme, version 370.
Language: Simply Scheme
```
then the installation was successful.

For DrScheme 209 and 300

Step One

First, start up DrScheme. If you don't have DrScheme, grab it first and install it. I've tested this against v209 and v301 (and the screenshots below refer to v209). Still, I'd recommend running this on v301, as it is the most recent and stable version of DrScheme.

(If you require this package for another version of PLT Scheme, please contact me, and I'll see what I can do.)

Step Two

Click on the Install .plt File ... command under the File menu.

You should see a dialog box come up asking for a URL. Enter the following into the URL text box:

http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/cs3/simply-scheme-301.plt
(if you're running DrScheme 301)
http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/cs3/simply-scheme.plt
(if you're running DrScheme 209)

(I'm really sorry about the long URL! I'll see if I can get a simpler URL for this.)

Step Three

You should see an installation dialog pop up with some messages about "unpacking" or something like that. Eventually, it should finish, and you should be able to press Close.

Step Four

Restart DrScheme. It needs a restart because we added a new "language" to DrScheme, and it only looks at languages when it starts up. Once DrScheme starts up again, go to the Choose Language... command under the Language menu.

A dialog box should pop up. Select the language Simply Scheme underneath the Teaching Languages.

Step Five (last step!)

Press the Run button. If all went well, we should see that the Language is now selected. We're done!