Learn OCaml

Dive into functional programming with OCaml through a comprehensive MOOC and advanced course. Master fundamental concepts like integer and string identifiers, simple functions, and data structures. Progress to advanced topics including type-directed programming, efficient list implementations, balanced binary trees, and first-class functions. Explore practical applications such as symbolic manipulation of arithmetic expressions, implementing databases, and creating interpreters. Tackle challenging problems in alpha-beta search, Huffman compression, and parser combinators. Develop skills in algorithm design, data structure implementation, and problem-solving using OCaml's powerful type system and functional paradigm.

Syllabus

Introduction to Functional Programming (MOOC)
- Integer Identifiers
- String Identifiers
- Simple Functions over Integers
- Simple Functions over Strings
- Tetragon
- Enigma
- Time on Planet Shadokus
- Points and vectors
- Searching for Strings in Arrays
- Finding the Minimum
- A Small Typed Database
- First In First Out
- Classic Functions Over Lists
- Symbolic Manipulation of Arithmetic Expressions
- Tries
- Type Directed Programming
- An Implementation of List with an Efficient Concatenation
- Balanced Binary Trees
- Using First Class Functions
- Functions Returning Functions
- Optimizing Partial Applications
- A Small Arithmetic Interpreter
- Using and Writing the Map Function
- Optimising a Tree Traversal using Exceptions
- Unraveling the Automatic Grader
- Printing Lists
- Displaying a Filesystem Hierarchy
- Printing with Loops
- Producing Fine ASCII Art
- Rotating the Contents of an Array
- Implementing a Stack with an Array
- Type Abstraction Using a Signature
- Multisets
- Fixing a module signature
- Char Indexed Hashtables
Advanced Functional Programming by François Pottier
- Alpha-Beta Search
- Recognizing Anagrams
- Breaking a Sort
- Counting trees
- Enumerating Trees
- Generic Sorting
- Huffman Compression
- Infinite Arrays
- Leftist heaps
- Merge Sort
- Implementing Nondeterminism with Continuations
- Implementing Nondeterminism as an Abstract Machine
- Implementing Nondeterminism with Sequences
- Parser Combinators
- Persistent arrays
- A pretty-printer
- Random access lists
- A SAT solver
- From a Spectre to a Tree
- Trees in Stereo Vision
- Symbolic Sequences as Data
- Symbolic Sequences as Objects
- Building a Game Tree
- Tree Iterators
- The Union-Find data structure