The Always Learning Marty

After finishing the first 4 chapters of OCaml from the very beginning, I feel I am ready to move on to other learning resources that assume more programming background.  After all, I can write the Fizzbuzz test now, right?  Real World OCaml and the OCaml tutorials also have the advantage…

In Chapter 4 of OCaml from the very beginning, I learned about lists: A list is a collection of elements of the same type.  The type of the list is (the type of the element(s)) list E.g., a list of integers has the type int list. To define a list,…

I just found out about the Fizz Buzz Test yesterday, and I was so excited about solving it with the minimal OCaml knowledge I have!  So I did it!  You can find it on my github. While writing this program, I learned that semicolons are helpful markers!  You are to…

In this post I describe how I solved the following question (from Chapter 3 of OCaml from the very beginning): Use pattern matching to write a function which, given two numbers x and n, computes x to the power of n. Although the author provided an answer, his function returns…

In Chapter 3 of OCaml from the very beginning, I learned about pattern matching.  It can replace the ‘if … then … else …’ construct, and can be easier to read.  It also has the advantage that if you haven’t considered all cases in the pattern matching, OCaml will warn…

In chapter 2 of OCaml from the very beginning, I learned the following: Naming an expression Use the following constructs to define our own name (e.g., x) to stand for the result of evaluating an expression: let x = (expression) ;; let x = (expression) in (another expression) ;; OCaml…

I’m going to deep dive the language of OCaml and become an expert of this language.  Why OCaml?  Because I want to write programs that make no mistakes, and OCaml seems to help with that.  As explained in this website ‘OCaml is a general purpose programming language with an emphasis…