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# OCaml from the Very Beginning

**Brand:** john whitington
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## Customer Reviews

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    A useful short introduction
  

*by M***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2019*

This is a kind of minimalistic introduction. Nothing wrong with that. But it is by no means the complete language. Just the first steps for a complete OCaml beginner with some programming experience. Overall recommended.Pros:- contains all the essential things to introduce the language- has an extensive set of exercises with solutions at the end of the book- each chapter is shortly reviewed at the end- mostly clear explanationsCons:- some of the chapter titles should be better descriptive, it is not easy to find things- you may have to do the exercises to really get the best out of this book. I hardly ever do that. I exercise by trying to use the language as soon as possible.- it introduces only OCaml, it does not say much about functional programming and its virtues.My copy of the book is filled with my own handwritten notes and comments, the chapter titles have been extended. Then it is more useful. I never read programming books cover to cover, I always pick things.OCaml is one of the best functional languages I know. Of course, this is my personal opinion.

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    Aptly named
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 14, 2016*

This is truly an introductory treatment of the language; a tour of rudiments. If you've done *any* OCaml, this is *not* your book.It has exercises to work, with answers in an appendix. You can code along with this text. It's nicely progressive. Stuff, for the most part; no fluff. Note that you are on your own, however, as far as getting OCaml installed on your machine.If you already hack OCaml at all, move along. But if you're outside looking in and you want a well-written, hand-holding, easily read ice-breaker, then I would heartily recommend. Seriously, if you have any doubts about your capacity to get started with OCaml, this will lay your fears to rest -- assuming you get it installed OK (don't worry, it's easy too https://ocaml.org/docs/install.html).

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    Very good for beginners
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 6, 2017*

Starts off a little slow if you've worked with other programming languages, but serves as a pretty solid introduction to OCaml as well as programming in general.  I did notice some minor "printing" errors in the Kindle version with some graphics missing the graphics that should be there and also some minor mathematical errors (i.e. 0! is returned as 0 in one of the answers when it should be 1), but the overall structure is excellent for beginners and easy to understand.

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