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

[Yaron Minsky]

My sense from having talked to a bunch of people who are teaching
these classes in the US is that Windows is probably important longer
term, but short term there are other higher value things to improve
upon.  I think having good ways of doing graphical examples is surely
one, and I tend to think that Javascript is a far better target than
X11.

I'd also love to have good default editor setups that we could
deliver, perhaps through OPAM itself.  Having a nicely set up editor
configs with things like Merlin and ocp-indent working out of the box
would be great.

y

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Greg Morrisett <greg at eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Ditto at Harvard.
>
> -Greg
>
>> On Nov 26, 2014, at 10:44 AM, David Walker <princedpw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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