Learn functional programming with the OCaml programming language

Registrations are open!

Functional programming is attracting interest from a broad range of

developers because it allows to write expressive, concise and elegant

programs.

The course “Introduction to Functional programming using the OCaml

language” introduces gradually the central notions of functional

programming, via a set of video courses that are complemented by a

rich set of interesting exercises that you can perform fully in your

browser… Yes, this means you can start learning functional

programming without any hassle: nothing to install, nothing to tune

up! The programming environment is just one click away!

During the course, you will discover powerful mechanisms that allow to

build and manipulate complex data structures in a clean and efficient way.

And you will see how functions play a central role, as first-class values

that can be freely used in any place where an expression can appear.

Registrations are already open at

FUN-MOOC Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml In this course you will discover the power of Functional Programming, using the OCaml language to write concise, efficient and elegant programs.

The course will start on September 17th 2018, and will run for six weeks.

Your expected effort is between 2 and 6 hours per week, depending on your

background, including the time spent watching the short video sequences

of the course, that total approximately an hour per week.

This may seem a significant effort, but at the end of the course you will

have actually learned a lot: the final programming project will confirm

that you acquired a good mastery of functional programming and the ability

to develop medium sized programs with ease.

Thousands of learners attended the first two runs of this course in

2015 and 2016, and the many that completed it were extremely

satisfied.

To introduce you to functional programming, we have chosen to use the

OCaml programming language. OCaml is a rich, elegant, efficient programming

language that reconciles the conciseness and flexibility of untyped

programming languages (like Python, for example) with the safety of

strongly typed programming languages (like Java, for example), and that has

a vibrant user community.

Facebook, Microsoft, JaneStreet, Bloomberg are some big names in

industry that adopted OCaml to develop cutting edge applications. The

research community uses OCaml for writing tools like the proof

assistant Coq, the Coccinelle program transformer, the Frama-C code

analyser, or the Astree static analyser. Several start ups use OCaml

to obtain tenfold gains in productivity and stability of their code

base. Recently, Tezos, one of the most innovative blockchains, has

developed its entire software stack using OCaml to get high insurance

about the execution of smart contracts.

Once you have started mastering functional programming using OCaml, we are

sure that other programming languages will never look the same to you

again.

This course will be held in English, but subtitles are already available

in English, in Portuguese and in French.

Prerequisites

To take full advantage of this course you should have already some basic

knowledge of computer programming, in particular you should already know

how to write simple computer programs in some programming language. For

instance, you should know concepts like variables (or identifiers),

functions (or procedures, methods), conditionals, and loops.