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

David Walker princedpw at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 19:06:48 GMT 2014


I agree that having good editor set-ups would be great.  I would love one
that is compatible with Pa_ounit.

By the way, I have also found that many of my students seem to prefer using
sublime over emacs.

Dave

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Yaron Minsky <yminsky at janestreet.com>
wrote:

> 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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