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Learn functional programming fundamentals through OCaml in this comprehensive course spanning nearly 8 hours of instruction. Begin with the history and motivation behind functional programming, explore OCaml's key features and development environment, and discover why major users have adopted this language. Master basic and advanced data types including user-defined types, tuples, and records while working through practical case studies like building a small typed database. Dive deep into OCaml's functional programming concepts including recursion, tagged values, tree-like structures, and polymorphic algebraic datatypes through hands-on projects such as creating a story teller application. Develop expertise in functional expressions, first-class functions, partial application, and essential operations like mapping and folding functions on lists. Explore OCaml's imperative features including exception handling, sequences, iterations, input/output operations, mutable record fields, and references. Conclude by learning to structure software effectively using modules, information hiding principles, functors, and compilation units, with practical examples including building a dictionary module. Gain insights into the current OCaml ecosystem through included workshop content covering the platform's state and declarative syntax definitions.
