Ah, but there's no guarantee that the students have Windows machines at home. I agree that replicating a development environment in one's own system is importan

Ah, but there's no guarantee that the students have Windows machines at home. I agree that replicating a development environment in one's own system is important -- which is why it's important to take into account households (like mine) where all the computers run OS X. Windows is not as dominant as it once was.