At Penn we use OCaml and OcaIDE in Eclipse, but we avoid using any fancy
libraries -- OCaml's graphics works for us on Windows, OSX and Linux.
We use Eclipse mainly because we also teach Java in the same class, and
getting students to use two different editors/IDEs would be a real pain.
We've considered using virtual machines but haven't yet gone that route,
so Windows support is pretty important for us.
Eclipse itself is becoming more of a hassle, so we'd be willing to ditch
it in favor of a simpler solution, but haven't yet found something we like.
Our class targets Freshman, and many non-CS students take it, so we
can't rely on them even knowing what the terminal is.
--Steve
On 11/26/14, 11:56 AM, Greg Morrisett 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
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