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 <[email protected]> wrote: > Ditto at Harvard. > > -Greg > >> On Nov 26, 2014, at 10:44 AM, David Walker <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Teaching mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/teaching >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Teaching mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/teaching > > _______________________________________________ > Teaching mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/teaching _______________________________________________ Teaching mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/teaching
