From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A1D0BC0B for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:08:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net (ptb-relay01.plus.net [212.159.14.212]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0GJ8g68009721 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:08:43 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=[10.0.0.5]) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1H6tfj-0007cZ-Ud for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:08:40 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Books Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:06:58 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070115205759.0c854117@localhost> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701161906.58351.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 45AD22BA.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 parsing:01 renderer:01 renderer:01 solver:01 28,:98 walks:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 symbolic:01 chapters:02 caml:02 objective:02 On Tuesday 16 January 2007 17:28, Kai Kuehne wrote: > I'm reading Practical Ocaml at the moment and agree > with you. I just didn't find any other (printed and buyable) > english book out there. I wouldn't recommend it too. The freely available first chapter of my book "OCaml for Scientists" covers the basics of OCaml: http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/chapter1.html The remainder of the book should be accessible to people from a variety of disciplines and covers topics including numerical analysis, parsing, visualisation using OpenGL and optimisation. The final chapter walks through five complete applications written in OCaml. The code from the visualisation and final chapters is freely available: http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/visualisation/ http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/complete/ You may also enjoy our "Benefits of OCaml" pages, that discuss various language features and also has several example programs (symbolic manipulation, a tiny interpreter, mandelbrot renderer, ray tracer and maze generator): http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/ocaml/ There are a couple of demos that haven't been linked in yet. A rabbit renderer: http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/bunny/ and a 19-line Sudoku solver: http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/sudoku/ HTH! -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. Objective CAML for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists