This website is a set of practical, detailed tutorials for people who want to learn Objective CAML (often known as just "OCaml").
OCaml is a fast, concise and powerful language for application development - but I assume you already knew that, and I also assume you've managed to install it. If not, you can find out more at the main OCaml webpages or at the OCaml Alliance's getting started area.
Tutorials
- The Basics - If you are new to OCaml or functional programming, read this first.
- The Structure of OCaml Programs
- Data Types and Matching
- Null Pointers, Asserts and Warnings
- Functional Programming
- If Statements, Loops and Recursion
- Labels
- Objects
- Garbage Collection
- Performance and Profiling
- Introduction to Gtk
- Calling C libraries
- Common error messages
- OCaml and the Web
- Programming style
- Standard Library Examples
- Compiling OCaml projects
See also:
- Resources for OCaml beginners (mailing lists, sample code, etc.)
- Newbie FAQ for some common questions answered
- Glossary of OCaml-related terms
External tutorials
- List of resources at the main OCaml site
- Caml FAQ from the old OCaml web site, still very useful
- A great tutorial on camlp4, on how to extend the syntax of OCaml with the Camlp4 standard tool
- A short tutorial by David Matuszek
- Some other links to learning materials
- Jason Hickey's introduction to Objective Caml [PDF, 109 pages]
- Didier Rémy's Using, Understanding, and Unraveling the OCaml Language [PDF, 175 pages]
- An introduction to OCaml, from the Linux Gazette.
- Benefits of OCaml
Exercises
- Add a parameter to a function
- Write a list generator
- Write a binary-predicate list test
- Write a list circularity test
- Generate rectangular parallelepipeds
- Implement an inventory facility
Acknowledgements
Here are some of the people who have helped write this tutorial:
- Doug Bagley
- Nicolas Cannasse
- Eric C. Cooper
- Richard Donkin
- Jim Farrand
- Fabrice Le Fessant
- Jacques Garrigue
- Stephen Gilmore
- Flavio Grossi
- Damien Guichard
- Brian Hurt
- Neel Krishnaswami
- Michel Levy
- Sven Luther
- John Gerard Malecki
- Luc Maranget
- Jean-Francois Monin
- Markus Mottl
- Thomas Mraz
- Wolfgang Mueller
- Lars Nilsson
- Jose Manuel Nunes
- Frederic van der Plancke
- Paul Steckler
- Fabian Sturm
- Ryan Tarpine
- Remi Vanicat
- Yamagata Yoriyuki
- Stefano Zacchiroli
Thanks to them and to all members of caml-list and ocaml-beginners.
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