[Teaching] Asking teachers: what support would you want to distribute OCaml to students ?

[David Walker]

At Princeton, we also have lots of students with windows machines and
support them by having them download a VM.

Dave

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Benjamin Greenman <blg59 at cornell.edu>
wrote:

> 1/ What systems does it need to work in ? Does that include Windows ?
>
>
> For the functional programming course at Cornell, we dropped Windows
> support in favor of a vagrant vm [1] in Fall 2013 and have since been much
> happier. Students can just double-click a few things and have a working
> install (complete with extra packages like pa_ounit and qcheck), and staff
> no longer needs to worry about cross-platform issues (especially important
> for GUIs).
>
> [1] https://github.com/cs3110/vagrant-opam
>
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