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

[Ivan Gotovchits]

Also, if you're working with Core, I highly suggest to add this line to
.merlin:

FLG -short-paths

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Yaron Minsky <yminsky at janestreet.com>
wrote:

> 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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