Context For designing and teaching computer science labs, one need to allow students to be able to start easily, while ensuring that the lab is doable the same way by everyone, and facilitating the troubleshooting by the teacher. Between the labs I have been taught and the ones I taught myself, I witnessed several ways of distributing lab environments to students, each way with its ups and downs. The easiest is to just ask the students to install the necessary tools and software, either on th...
