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| From: | Aleks Bromfield <abromfie@g...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Which syntax to teach ? |
On 10/24/07, Adrien <camaradetux@gmail.com> wrote: > >From camelia's website : http://camelia.sourceforge.net/ > "Camelia started out as a tool to help students in Brown University's > CS17 have an easier time making the leap from Scheme to OCaml. It's > meant to make writing in OCaml relatively painless without having to > learn the nuances of a powerful editor like Emacs or VI." For the past two years, Brown has used an environment called DrOCaml, built on top of DrScheme. It's perfect for our needs -- we use Scheme for the first half of our intro course, and OCaml for the second, so this saves students from having to learn a new environment halfway through the semester. (Of course, they have to learn a new syntax halfway through the semester, but that's another story...) You can install DrOCaml by first installing DrScheme, and then installing the PLT file at the URL: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs017/files/drocaml.plt If you do try this out and you experience any problems, let me know and I'll try to fix them as soon as I get a chance. -- Aleks Bromfield Brown University CS abromfie@cs.brown.edu