The always learning Marty’s software engineering journey

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, put the elements in a…

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 separate each expressions with a…

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 a stack overflow error when…

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 you so.  Just for this…

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 replies to confirm that an…

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 on expressiveness and safety……it (OCaml)…