Tutorial page would benefit from a visible "install" section

[charguer]

On the page "https://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/"
there is no occurence of the word "install", nor "ide", nor "editor".

At the moment, the "Learn" page links for the installation directly to https://ocaml.org/docs/install.html
which gives no hint on what to do for setting up a proper IDE to work on ocaml files.

I would suggest to split the "getting started / basics" bullet from the tutorial in several bullets:

• how to try ocaml online without installing anything
• how to install ocaml and configure your editor
• how to compile your first program

The "install ocaml" part would explain opam installation vs package manager installation, and explain tuareg/merlin modes, and a few words on syntax highlight for other editors.

The "how to compile" would show how to compile/execute hello_world.ml, and also would give a basic example of how to compile a two file projects that depends on a library (e.g. str.cma), using "ocamlbuild", or "dune", or "ocamlc" by hand.

PS: I would furthermore personally encourage not to introduce the ocaml command line toplevel. This is just a complete waste of times for students who get started using this thing, and spend hours working without a proper IDE.

[pmetzger]

I think having such information on the web page is an excellent idea (though I'm not against the toplevel.) Perhaps you should craft a Pull Request?

[agarwal]

Please see related issues regarding revamping the Tutorials page: #996, #502.

[ghost]

@patricoferris explore might be close to covering this now. Maybe we can close