• Title: OCaml from the Very Beginning
• Author(s) John Whitington
• Publisher: Coherent Press (June 7, 2013)
• Hardcover/Paperback: 201 pages
• eBook: HTML and PDF
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0957671105
• ISBN-13: 978-0957671102
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Book Description

This book takes a no-prerequisites approach to teaching a modern general-purpose programming language. Each small, self-contained chapter introduces a new topic, building until the reader can write quite substantial programs. There are plenty of questions and, crucially, worked answers and hints.

It will appeal both to new programmers, and experienced programmers eager to explore functional languages such as OCaml. It is suitable both for formal use within an undergraduate or graduate curriculum, and for the interested amateur.

• John Whitington founded a company which builds software for electronic document processing, which uses OCaml extensively. He studied, and taught, Computer Science at Queens' College, University of Cambridge. His books include the textbooks Python from the Very Beginning (Coherent, 2020), and Haskell from the Very Beginning (Coherent, 2019), and PDF Explained (O'Reilly, 2012), and the Popular Science book A Machine Made this Book: Ten Sketches of Computer Science (Coherent, 2016).

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