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Mastering Functional Programming with OCaml and Haskell

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Introduction

About This Course A Bite of Functional Programming Why Functional Programming Matters?Quiz on Imperative vs Functional Programming

Expressions: Building Blocks of Functional Programs

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

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

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

The map Function The filter Function The fold Function The zip Function Programming Challenges Quiz on Common Computation Patterns

Dataflow Programming with Functions

List-based Dataflow Programming Stream-based Dataflow Programming Programming Challenges Quiz on Dataflow Programming with Functions

Applying Functional Programming to Various Domains

Handle Collections in Data Processing Applications Handling JSON

Conclusion

Wrap Up Where to Go from Here?

Appendix

Install OCaml Compiler Install Haskell Compiler

Quiz on Functions

Let’s test your understanding of functions.

Building abstractions with functions

1

(Select all that apply) What is the value of the following lambda expression?

$(\lambda x.\,x \, y) (\lambda z.\,z)$

A)

$y$

B)

$z$

Question 1 of 80 attempted

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