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OCaml from the Very Beginning
A book for those new to programming, or new to functional programming, or just new to OCaml.
- Preface
- Getting Ready
- 1. Starting Off
- 2. Names and Functions
- Note on Notation
- 3. Case by Case
- 4. Making Lists
- Two Different Ways of Thinking
- 5. Sorting Things
- Loading a Program from a File
- 6. Functions upon Functions upon Functions
- 7. When Things Go Wrong
- 8. Looking Things Up
- 9. More with Functions
- 10. New Kinds of Data
- 11. Growing Trees
- 12. In and Out
- 13. Putting Things in Boxes
- 14. The Other Numbers
- 15. The OCaml Standard Library
- 16. Building Bigger Programs
- Answers to Questions
- Hints for Questions
- Coping with Errors
Read in full here:
https://johnwhitington.net/ocamlfromtheverybeginning/
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