From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: OCaml mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 14:48:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C8F80082-5723-4DCB-8DA7-3F07EE794075@polytechnique.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC3Lx=bBNA9Kr87cWfv_MGn4hXw6pyk=630p7QSCfYVZ1-bvTQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 7 déc. 2011, at 14:15, David MENTRE wrote:
> 2011/12/7 Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>:
>>> 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
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Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-06 15:24 Jonathan Protzenko
2011-12-06 15:31 ` Joel Reymont
2011-12-06 23:03 ` Martin Jambon
2011-12-06 16:01 ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2011-12-06 16:03 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-06 16:56 ` Ashish Agarwal
2011-12-06 17:12 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-06 17:33 ` Alex Rubinsteyn
2011-12-06 17:53 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-07 0:18 ` Paolo Donadeo
2011-12-07 1:00 ` oliver
2011-12-07 6:33 ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2011-12-07 1:48 ` Ashish Agarwal
2011-12-07 9:53 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-07 10:33 ` Pierre-Alexandre Voye
2011-12-07 11:18 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-07 13:15 ` David MENTRE
2011-12-07 13:48 ` Alan Schmitt [this message]
2011-12-07 14:56 ` Ashish Agarwal
2011-12-07 15:52 ` oliver
2011-12-10 14:58 ` Xavier Leroy
2011-12-08 7:59 ` rixed
2011-12-08 10:37 ` oliver
2011-12-08 13:15 ` [Caml-list] Wanted book (Re: Some comments on recent discussions) Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2011-12-09 21:22 ` oliver
2011-12-09 7:13 ` [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions Martin Jambon
2011-12-10 20:32 ` Andrei Formiga
2011-12-10 21:01 ` Edgar Friendly
2011-12-10 21:12 ` rixed
2011-12-10 21:24 ` Edgar Friendly
2011-12-10 21:49 ` rixed
2011-12-10 22:45 ` Edgar Friendly
2011-12-10 23:58 ` Hans Ole Rafaelsen
2011-12-11 10:25 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-11 10:06 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-13 17:41 ` oliver
2011-12-13 5:54 ` Martin DeMello
2011-12-13 7:15 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-13 8:21 ` Martin DeMello
2011-12-13 8:51 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-13 9:15 ` Gaius Hammond
2011-12-13 14:08 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-14 5:28 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-13 9:51 ` Martin DeMello
2011-12-13 9:53 ` Adrien
2011-12-13 20:52 ` Jon Harrop
2011-12-14 6:03 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-14 9:34 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2011-12-14 10:24 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-14 13:37 ` Adrien
2011-12-14 14:24 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-14 15:27 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-14 15:46 ` Gaius Hammond
2011-12-14 15:49 ` Adrien
2011-12-14 16:42 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-12-14 17:04 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-15 21:38 ` Adrien
2011-12-14 16:55 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-14 21:35 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-15 11:14 ` Adrien
2011-12-14 12:52 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-14 13:25 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2011-12-14 17:27 ` Aleksey Nogin
2011-12-14 17:36 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-14 19:41 ` David Allsopp
2011-12-15 10:29 ` Adrien
2011-12-15 17:41 ` Martin DeMello
2011-12-15 20:47 ` Adrien
2011-12-15 21:20 ` Martin DeMello
2011-12-15 11:25 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-16 12:39 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-16 12:44 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2011-12-16 13:14 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-16 14:11 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-16 14:50 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-16 13:58 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-16 17:29 ` Edgar Friendly
2011-12-14 18:41 ` Dmitry Grebeniuk
2011-12-14 23:54 ` Martin DeMello
2011-12-15 10:03 ` Adrien
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