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

[Greg Morrisett]

Ditto at Harvard.  

-Greg

> On Nov 26, 2014, at 10:44 AM, David Walker <princedpw at gmail.com> wrote:
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> At Princeton, we also have lots of students with windows machines and support them by having them download a VM.
> 
> Dave
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> 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).
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> [1] https://github.com/cs3110/vagrant-opam
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