Hello,

On 07-01-2007, David Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr> wrote:
>   Dear list,
>
>  I'm going to start teaching OCaml soon and I'm fishing for ideas and
> suggestions. I hope this list is the right place to ask.
>
>  Within a few weeks, I'll be teaching OCaml to a class of second-year
> students in _mathematics & informatics_. The bad part is that their
> knowledge of computer science is limited to 3 term-long lectures of
> "algorithmics" (read "Java under Windows"), and that they have nil
> knowledge of Unix/Cygwin or Makefiles, or even Emacs or command-lines.
> The good part is that a number of them consider Java "not mathematical
> enough", so they may be good candidates for functional programming.
>
>  I'm planning to base my lecture roughly on part 1 of _Developing
> applications with Objective Caml_, perhaps replacing the chapter devoted
> to Graphics with the use of LablGTK. Then again, perhaps not. Some
> low-level graphics might be interesting for them. I also intend to give
> them a term-long project to work on and develop.
>
> Right now, I see the following difficulties:
>
> * the environment -- under Windows, is there any viable alternative to
> Emacs + the MinGW-based port ? 
>
> * the Makefile -- I've found OCamlMakefile [1] but I haven't tried it
> yet, hopefully it's simple enough for my students to use without too
> many arcane manipulations
>
> * the task -- for the moment, I have no interesting idea of OCaml-based
> projects. Perhaps something like finding the shortest path along
> subway/train lines ?
>
>
> Thanks for any idea/suggestion/comment,
>  David,
>   And a Happy New Year
>

Well, you can try :
http://www.librecours.org/

There is some lecture about OCaml. Maybe you'll find your answer in this
(already done) lecture ?

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall