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Super interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I have used Jupyter notebooks with a Docker deployment in my prior courses for OCaml and Prolog, with support for auto grading (using nbgrader). Jupyter notebooks aren’t great for version control. Otherwise, it worked pretty well across multiple iterations of the course with new professors coming in and independently being able to use the infra.

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Are these first-year undergrad courses? We can't assume students know anything about Docker or can even install packages on their systems. Some of them really have no idea at all, so pointing them to codeBoot saves a lot of time. Docker would definitely work for more experienced students though!

BTW, here's another quite nice feature of codeBoot: easy sharing! The following link will bring you to a suspended execution of 'print("hello, world!")' that you can then single-step.

https://app.codeboot.org/6.0.0/?init=.faGVsbG9fd29ybGQucHk=~...

Now I'm very curious about integrating OCaml too :)

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