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Mastering Functional Programming with OCaml and Haskell

Gain insights into functional programming with OCaml and Haskell, explore lambda calculus, abstractions, and dataflows, and learn to apply these concepts to real-world scenarios, contrasting with Java.

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40 Lessons

9h 5min

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105 Playgrounds

20 Challenges

6 Quizzes

Course Overview

What You'll Learn

Course Content

Course Overview

Functional programming is a paradigm that builds complete applications by breaking down programs into constituent functions that empowers developers to build fast, bug-resistant applications. You’ll be introduced to functional programming with illustrative examples contrasting the more widely used imperative programming paradigm. You’ll review lambda calculus as an introduction to expressions, the building blocks of functional programs. You’ll continue with abstractions and complex data types before explor...Show More

Functional programming is a paradigm that builds complete applications by breaking down programs into constituent functions that...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Functional Programming

What You'll Learn

A strong understanding of the core concepts of functional programming

Hands-on experience with functional programming techniques in both OCaml and Haskell

The ability to determine when either functional or imperative programming is best for a project

A deep familiarity with the fundamentals of programming functions in any language, particularly in parsing, type checking, compilation and execution

A strong understanding of the core concepts of functional programming

Course Content

Introduction

4 Lessons

Get familiar with functional programming principles, their significance, and practical applications.

About This Course

A Bite of Functional Programming

Why Functional Programming Matters?

Quiz on Imperative vs Functional Programming

Expressions: Building Blocks of Functional Programs

8 Lessons

Unpack the core of functional programming expressions, syntax, parsing, types, values, naming, and challenges.

Functional Programming is All About Expressions

Syntax of Expressions

Parsing Expressions

Types of Expressions

Values of Expressions

Assign Names to Expressions

Programming Challenges

Quiz on Expressions

Building Abstractions with Functions

7 Lessons

Master the steps to build abstractions with functions using concepts like lambda calculus, currying, and recursion.

Lambda Calculus: The Foundation of Functional Programming

Function Abstraction and Function Application

Use Currying for Function Chaining

Recursive Functions

General Computation Methods as Higher-Order Functions

Programming Challenges

Quiz on Functions

Compound Data Types

5 Lessons

Apply your skills to understand and utilize tuples, lists, and algebraic datatypes in OCaml.

Group Data Objects into Tuples

Store Sequences of Data with Lists

Declare User-defined Types with Algebraic Datatypes

Programming Challenges

Quiz on Compound Datatypes

Common Computation Patterns

6 Lessons

Solve problems in common computation patterns like map, filter, fold, and zip functions.

Programming Challenges

Quiz on Common Computation Patterns

Dataflow Programming with Functions

4 Lessons

Implement dataflow models using lists and streams, and tackle practical programming challenges.

List-based Dataflow Programming

Stream-based Dataflow Programming

Programming Challenges

Quiz on Dataflow Programming with Functions

Applying Functional Programming to Various Domains

2 Lessons

Practice using functional programming to handle collections and process hierarchical data structures like JSON.

Handle Collections in Data Processing Applications

Handling JSON

Conclusion

2 Lessons

Learn how to use functional programming strengths in projects and access advanced resources.

Wrap Up

Where to Go from Here?

Appendix

2 Lessons

Look at installing OCaml and Haskell compilers, including using their respective REPLs.

Install OCaml Compiler

Install Haskell Compiler

Course Author

Minh Quang Tran PhD

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