Nick Keers

On Software Development and Gaming

about me

I'm a Computer Science graduate from Keele University, I love all things software and am currently interested in functional programming and concurrent / parallel programming. Follow me on Twitter to keep up-to-date!

Revisiting Scala

I’ve been feeling ill the last couple of days and haven’t been able to face writing, but today I’m a lot better, so that means it’s time to write! I’m going to take a break from OCaml for a little bit - to tell the truth I was mostly interested in using F# and OCaml was more something to help with learning as F# and OCaml are very similar. Today I’m going to look at Scala again which should be more fun as I’m a Java programmer!

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Learning OCaml - Part 2

Day 2 of the learning process! Today I’ve changed the way I’m writing, I’m now writing the tutorial as I’m learning, which should make everything easier to understand – the last post was a mix of tenses and wasn’t very clear in my opinion. I’ve also switched to writing the tutorial locally using a WYSIWYG editor called Blue Griffon (http://bluegriffon.org/), this is still not ideal as the process of adding code tags and hyperlinks etc is slow because of the lack of keyboard shortcuts; but the generated HTML it produces is very tidy.

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Learning OCaml - Part 1

I’ve always been interested in learning OCaml, and I’ve been meaning to get into blogging; this means that this series (or walkthrough, as I’m going to walk you through how I’m learning as I learn) is the perfect opportunity! I’m going to attempt to write a blog post a day from now on, no matter how small the post. And so, let’s get started!

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