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Explore ReasonML's growing popularity and its strong-typed syntax for JavaScript. Learn about creating data objects, functions, and data structures through interactive quizzes and exercises.

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ReasonML has been skyrocketing in popularity lately, and for good... reason. Very recently developed by Facebook, it provides users a strong-typed, clean, and efficient syntax for JavaScript, which makes it great for web development. This course will get you up to speed programming in Reason. You'll start by learning how to create simple data objects and build up to more powerful tools such as functions and data structures. Along the way, interactive quizzes and exercises will help you gain a stronger grasp of the language. Anyone looking to put themselves on the cutting-edge of web development would be well served to have a look at this course.

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95 Lessons9 Quizzes14 Challenges

A Brief Introduction

4 Lessons

Get familiar with ReasonML's basics, operators, expressions, and its future in app development.

The Nature of the Language

Operators

Expressions and Statements

Quiz

Data Types

10 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of ReasonML's data types, including integers, booleans, floats, and type conversions.

Polymorphic Comparison

Type Conversions

Type Errors

Quiz

Identifiers

9 Lessons

Break apart and understand identifiers, let binding, type-specific identifiers, scope, and mutability in ReasonML.

Introduction

let Binding

Type-Specific Identifiers

Exercise: Mutable Integers

Solution Review: Mutable Integers

Data Structures

16 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of ReasonML's data structures, including tuples, records, and arrays.

Basic Array Functions

Pattern Matching with Arrays

Quiz

Exercise: Pattern Matching with Nested Tuples

Solution Review: Pattern Matching with Nested Tuples

Exercise: Mutable Nested Fields

Solution Review: Mutable Nested Fields

Exercise: Palindromic Arrays

Solution Review: Palindromic Arrays

Conditional Expressions

10 Lessons

Take a closer look at ReasonML's conditional constructs, including if-else, switch, and ternary operators.

Introduction

The if-else Expression

Exercise: String Comparison

Solution Review: String Comparison

Exercise: Number Sequence

Solution Review: Number Sequence

Functions

18 Lessons

Focus on defining, scoping, currying, and utilizing functions and their recursive, polymorphic, and operational capabilities in ReasonML.

Functions with Records

Polymorphic Functions

Quiz

Exercise: Celsius to Fahrenheit

Solution Review: Celsius to Fahrenheit

Exercise: The Factorial of a Number

Solution Review: The Factorial of a Number

Exercise: Tuples from Records

Solution Review: Tuples from Records

Loops

8 Lessons

Practice using ReasonML loops to efficiently handle repeated operations and iterative processes.

Exercise: Find the Minimum in an Array

Solution Review: Find the Minimum in an Array

Exercise: The Factorial of a Number (Loops)

Solution Review: The Factorial of a Number (Loops)

Variants

12 Lessons

Learn how to use variants, constructors, option types, and lists in ReasonML.

Further List Operations

Quiz

Exercise: Count Even Integers in a List

Solution Review: Count Even Integers in a List

Exercise: Pedestrian Movement

Solution Review: Pedestrian Movement

Objects

8 Lessons

Grasp objects' flexibility, creation, mutability, private methods, and open objects, with a calculator exercise.

Exercise: The Calculator Object

Solution Review: The Calculator Object

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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