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

[David Walker]

Thanks. I forwarded this on to my students.  We'll see if some of them try
it.

Dave

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Yaron Minsky <yminsky at janestreet.com>
wrote:

> There appears to be Merlin support for sublime text out there:
>
> https://github.com/Cynddl/sublime-text-merlin
>
> I think that coming up with good default setups for Merlin and the
> remaining build tools would be nice too.  For example, you want the
> compiler warnings in Merlin to mesh nicely with the ones you pick in
> your build.
>
> y
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:06 PM, David Walker <princedpw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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