Functional Programming in OCaml

Re:Functional Programming in OCaml by zerr on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:59PM (#27977594)

Any experiences teaching kids/students programming with FP? Starting with FP that is.

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Re:Functional Programming in OCaml by eynsham on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:09PM (#27977696)

The first programming course at Oxford is FP. It makes some sense: (1) sometimes diving into something helps (especially with support from tutors) (2) it gives those with existing programming knowledge something new to work with and (3) functional programming concepts are generally helpful, so it’s still useful in other spheres.

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Re:Functional Programming in OCaml by yawaramin on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @11:50PM (#27980081)

Two that I can think of:

- Bootstrap teaches a toned-down version of Racket (i.e. Scheme): https://bootstrapworld.org/materials/spring2021/en-us/course... . It's taught in some schools as well as a comp sci curriculum.

- https://code.world/ teaches using a toned-down version of Haskell. To my knowledge it's not used in schools.

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Re:Functional Programming in OCaml by schot on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:48AM (#27981336)

The Coursera course Programming Languages (Part A and B) by Dan Grossman teaches FP (and more) using SML and Racket. I enjoyed this course a lot. I would not recommend it for kids, but it should be great for students with some limited programming experience.

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages

[2]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages-part-b

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Re:Functional Programming in OCaml by epolanski on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:18PM (#27978762)

SICP focuses on Lisp/Scheme and it's one of the best programming books for beginners I can think of.

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