June 25, 2025
More OCaml: Algorithms, Methods & Diversions
When I wrote OCaml from the Very Beginning, the goal was to create a book a bright newcomer to programming could follow without prerequisites. This book builds on the foundation laid in the first, but is written for readers with some experience, either from working through the earlier book or from programming in another functional language like Haskell or Standard ML.
In most real-world projects, you face two kinds of complexity: one kind comes from the problem itself, and the other kind comes from navigating a language’s ecosystem of third-party libraries. This book focuses entirely on the first. Using only the OCaml Standard Library, we’ll explore how to tackle complexity through abstraction.
The book is made up of sixteen short chapters that fall into three broad categories: Some introduce OCaml syntax and features through worked examples; others dig into practical topics like input and output; others take small detours into puzzles and diversions.
You’ll finish by building a complete project: a program that generates PDF files with drawings and text. Every chapter includes exercises with hints and full worked answers.
This work was written and produced entirely by the author. We are proud to be distributing it.
Now available from pragprog.com/titles/d-jwocaml.
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