@cuihtlauac got any idea where we can add this? (If that's the case)

A simple solution would be to add the link cited above in a box similar to the "Recommended book" one, advertising extra material for online practice.

Another - more ambitious - possibility would be to add exercise boxes pointing to appropriate exercises (all but "Advanced Functional Programming by François Pottier" can be considered beginner level I suppose and François' exercises can be very good for advanced learners). We can provide a list of URLs and short descriptions for each in the format of your choice.

A simple solution would be to add the link cited above in a box similar to the "Recommended book" one, advertising extra material for online practice.

Yes, that's one option. However, book data is stored as Yaml+Markdown in the data/books folder and Learn OCaml probably doesn't fit in the template. Changing the syntax or filing with dummy values doesn't seem great.

It probably makes more sense to treat it as a one of kind thing, like the reference manual.

Another - more ambitious - possibility would be to add exercise boxes pointing to appropriate exercises (all but "Advanced Functional Programming by François Pottier" can be considered beginner level I suppose and François' exercises can be very good for advanced learners). We can provide a list of URLs and short descriptions for each in the format of your choice.

It would be great to be able to go both ways. Run the nitety-nine lisp derived exercises in Learn OCaml and list the exercises from Learn OCaml in https://ocaml.org/exercises, as the others, possibly with labels like we do for RWO and CS3110 tutorials.

It would be great to be able to go both ways. Run the nitety-nine lisp derived exercises in Learn OCaml and list the exercises from Learn OCaml in https://ocaml.org/exercises, as the others, possibly with labels like we do for RWO and CS3110 tutorials.

That's even more ambitious than what I proposed :-)

Yes, that's one option. However, book data is stored as Yaml+Markdown in the data/books folder and Learn OCaml probably doesn't fit in the template. Changing the syntax or filing with dummy values doesn't seem great.

It probably makes more sense to treat it as a one of kind thing, like the reference manual.

Should we start from here to get something simple working soon? Can you guide me in the process?

Sure!

One possible way to go is to define another category of served data. This would allow defining a tile-base UI (like this one https://ocaml.org/jobs). We'd have one tile per learn resource. Learn-OCaml would be one. There's also this:

• https://github.com/gs0510/ofronds
• https://github.com/sudha247/learn-ocaml-workshop
• https://github.com/kayceesrk/cs3100_f19

I suspect there's even more.

This implies creating a new kind of served data. Folowing-up with the jobs example, this file: data/jobs entails the jobs page.

• In tool/ood-gen/lib/job.ml there's the Yaml parser. It translates into OCaml sources which are compiled and linked (ocaml.org runs from memory).
• In src/ocamlorg_frontend/pages/jobs.eml there's the HTML template which is turned into the paged served with the Yaml data
• In src/ocamlorg_web/lib/handler.ml and src/ocamlorg_web/lib/router.ml there's the bits that glues everything together. There's also some stuff in src/ocamlorg_data/lib/data.ml

That's the overall logic. @Clairevanden will think of the design.

Regarding the Yaml data we probably need fields for:

• Title
• Short description
• Long description
• Image
• Online Url
• Source Url
• License

This whole thing would allow displaying the tiles either in the exercises, in the community or anywhere else.

What do you think of this plan?

@sabine Can I try working on this?
@SaySayo @cuihtlauac @tmattio

@Dev-JoyA will you like to attempt this?

@amarachigoodness74 I have responded to your comment on another issue.

Hello @SaySayo , Im an outreachy applicant.

Please, can I work on this?

@0xrotense you can go ahead

Alright thanks

The original request, referencing to the Learn OCaml platform, has been resolved by #2140, however, the data hardcoded into the template could still be moved into a dedicated data model in ood-gen.