# A Brief Tour of DrScheme

DrScheme is an interactive, integrated programming environment designed specifically with the needs of beginners in mind. This tour highlights some of the features that make it especially useful in education.

  DrScheme will start in the Beginning Student level, which is a severe restriction of the full Scheme language. If you (or your class) aren't using language levels, you should immediately switch DrScheme to Full Graphical Scheme (or your instructor's suggested alternative) using the Choose Language menu item.

This tour is part of an extensive help system called . The tour includes references to other portions of Help Desk that you can consult for additional information on a topic. You can re-visit this tour through the front page of Help Desk.

- An Invitation to Scheme
- Interactive Environment
- Language Levels: Introduction
- Language Levels: Example
- Teachpacks
- Teachpack for Graphics
- Run-Time Error Reporting
- The Stepper
- The Transparent REPL
- Portability
- Printing Values: Constructor Notation
- Printing Values: Quasiquote Notation
- Backtrace
- Conclusion

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