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  1. Running EXE files on Blog Torrent Beta Released · · Score: 2, Informative
    As Holmes pointed out, we've already thought about this issue, and I think we've come up with the most reasonable solution possible. This post explains it nicely:
    To clear things up once and for all: End users only need to download an installer for Blog Torrent ONCE, just as they would for any other Bit Torrent client. After that, they just download torrents. When it comes down to it, any software that's going to be doing downloading will need permission to access the local machine. The best way we can deal with this is make the user deal with the permissions issue as few times as possible in a way that they are familiar with. Giving people an EXE installer once seems to be the best way to achieve this on Windows.
  2. Scheme Interpreter in Scheme on Memorable Programming Assignments? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since Scheme is so simple, this is surprisingly easy to do, and it's a great learning tool. It helps students understand what's really going on when they run their program.

    See Abelson and Sussman's classic computer science text, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (aka The Wizard Book), for details. This book is also an excellent introduction to the basic concepts of computer science.