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

[Yaron Minsky]

By the way, getting merlin to work with pa_ounit is as simple as
adding a line that says

    EXT ounit

to the .merlin file.  I'd also recommend customizing the warnings.  I
do something like this:

    FLG -w -4-33-40-41-42-43-34-44

but the choice probably depends on the approach you're taking in the
class.  Enabling type-directed constructor disambiguation is probably
not a clear win for a class, for example.

y


On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 7:59 PM, David Walker <princedpw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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