Teaching the Art of Functional Programming

About

This is the companion webpage to the paper Teaching the Art of Functional Programming Using Automated Grading (Experience Report), as submitted to ICFP '19.

In the report, we detail our experience in using the Learn-OCaml online programming platform to deliver and grade assignments for the second-year computer science course COMP 302: Programming Languages and Paradigms at McGill university. We describe extensions that we have implemented for the platform in order to make it easier for instructors to write automated graders, and we make available a repository of assignments and associated graders that we have written for other instructors to use with the Learn-OCaml platform.

Links

• Preprint of the paper.
• Our fork of the Learn-OCaml platform can be found on GitHub. We also have a public Docker image. We are currently working on having our changes incorporated into the main Learn-OCaml repository.

• As a part of this project, we have started a repository of assignments and graders for the Learn-OCaml platform for other instructors to make use of and contribute their own assignments.

  Learn-OCaml grader repository — please contact Aliya Hameer (see below) to request access!

People

This project was started by Aliya Hameer under the supervision of Prof. Brigitte Pientka at McGill University.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), grant number 206263, and the OCaml Software Foundation, grant number 249299.