Functional Programming: Day 1

Ken Wakita (https://wakita.github.io/fp2017/)

Sep. 25, 2017

Today’s course material

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Course Description
Introduction to OCaml
The organization of the MinCaml compiler

This is a side note.
Another side note

Assignments
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1. Read the following pages and get ready to OCaml

What is OCaml?
OCaml: The Basics

Learn the basic syntax (comments, function calls, function definition), basic types, type casting, and functional types.

2. Install OCaml on your laptop

Linux: use the package manager of your Linux distribution
Mac: brew install ocaml
Windows: a binary distribution is available from the official site

3. Try out some

Start OCaml interpreter: open terminal on Linux /Mac or start cmd.exe on Windows
Run ocaml. If your installation is fine OCaml welcomes you with its version number and a prompt #:
```
        OCaml version 4.05.0

# 
```

Try out some examples from OCaml: The Basics

let repeated s n =
  for i = 1 to n do
    print_endline(s)
  done;;

repeated "hello" 3;;

That’s it

Please bring your laptop for the next class
Recommended reading:
- Chapter 1: The core language from OCaml manual

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