On 7 déc. 2011, at 14:15, David MENTRE wrote: > 2011/12/7 Gabriel Scherer <[email protected]>: >>> The French book "Le langage Caml" is very great, > > Yes, yes and yes! > > I especially loved the "do one *complete* program in one chapter of a > few pages" approach.
Yes, it's a great start to write a course on Caml. (I realize that the online version is the second edition, yet it is shorter than the paper version I have here. Either some chapters were removed in the 2nd edition or they are not available online.) > Another idea: adapt the book to ePub format extended with Javascript > (apparently latest ePub draft has such scripting capabilities) and use > js_of_ocaml tool to embed an OCaml toplevel inside the book: read the > examples, execute examples, play with the examples! Wouldn't it be > nice? ;-) This would be most useful for teaching. I'd be ready to help such a project. Alan -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
