# Program Design

- Why DrScheme?: PLT's vision

The textbook How to Design Programs provides an introduction to programming using the DrScheme environment. Although the book is not distributed with DrScheme, a draft of the book is available online as Lecture Notes for the TeachScheme! project:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/Teaching/material.shtml
The textbook becomes available in print sometime during the year 2000.

In addition, Help Desk provides the following interactive support:

- Design Recipe browser

- Teachpack documentation