Nemerle for OOP Programmers Table of Contents

Week 0

• Values and Variables
• Type Inference
• Methods
  • Returning Values
• Primitive Types
• Simple Examples
• Decision Statements
  • Combining relational operators
  • Using conditions
• Code blocks
• Exercises
  • Install Nemerle
  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2

Week 1

• Class definitions
  • Modifiers
    • Side note: mutability
    • Accessing instance vs. static members
  • Custom attributes
  • Methods
  • Fields
  • Instance constructors
    • The [Record] macro
    • Default constructor
  • Example
    • A little prize: string interpolation
    • Some loops
  • More about classes!
    • Static constructors
    • Properties
      • The [Accessor] macro
    • Inheritance and virtual calls
      • Abstract methods
    • Modules
  • Type conversions
  • Exercises
    • Exercise 1
    • Exercise 2
    • Exercise 3
    • Extra Exercise

Week 2

• Introduction to Functional Programming

Local functions Passing functions as parameters Lexical scoping

• Lists
  • Pattern matching
    • The wildcard pattern
    • Literal patterns
    • List patterns
    • Variable patterns
  • Simple list manipulation
    • Filter
    • Side note: anonymous functions
    • First N
  • Types and Generics
    • Parametric types
    • Function types
    • Generic functions
    • Side note: names of generic parameters
  • Exercises
    • Exercise 1
    • Exercise 2: iterators
    • Exercise 3: flatten
    • Exercise 4: SW again

Week 3

• Tuples
  • Tuple pattern
  • Tuple indexer
    • Indexing rules
  • Tuple type
  • Side note: relationship between tuple and function types
  • Side note: tuple assignment
• Variants
  • Matching over variants
  • Using variants as trees
  • XML trees
  • Side note: skipping match
• Exercises
  • Exercise 1: Tree.Iter
  • Exercise 2: XML parsing

Week 4

• Advanced pattern matching
  • Type check pattern
  • Record pattern
  • as pattern
  • Type hint pattern
  • Alternative clauses
  • with clauses
• Performance considerations
  • Tail calls vs loops
  • Programming with accumulators
    • Reverse list
    • Length of list
  • Fold
  • Side note: redefining symbols
• Parametric polymorphism aka generics
  • Generic types (and immutable collections)
  • Generic methods
  • Generic specifier
    • For constructors
    • For methods
    • For types in static member references
  • Constraints on type variables
• Excercises
  • One
  • Two
  • Three

Week 5

• Namespaces and the using directive
• Enums
  • Function parameters
  • Ref/out parameters
• Named parameters
• Operator overloading
• Interfaces
• Design by contract macros
• Properties
• Indexers
• Delegates
• Events