Dear OCaml community, A long time ago, Sylvain and I wrote a French book on learning programming with OCaml . Recently, the OCaml Software Foundation funded its translation to English. The book is available here: Learn Programming with OCaml Many thanks to Urmila for a translation of high quality…

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Hi @BearCooder A preliminary EPUB version of the book is now available. Feedback is most welcome (preferably by submitting an issue here ). Big thanks to @Chet_Murthy who spent weeks working this out from our LaTeX sources.

Thanks so much for this book! I always felt like OCaml was a fairly beginner-friendly language (some compiler messages notwithstanding…), and I’ve been sad that there isn’t much in the way of instructional materials for the novice in English. I will be happy to recommend this book the next time the…

Hi @backtracking , I clicked the link download the preliminary epub file which downloads as lpo.epub, but in reality I have got a pdf file (called lpo.epub) which is 12 bytes shorter than the pdf file (1979697 versus 1979909 bytes). Nevertheless, thanks for the book!

Oups, my bad. Apologies. The link is fixed.

No, the French version is not available for free. Cheers, Nicolas

Unfortunately, as mentioned by @nojb , the French version is not available for free (the book is sold by Eyrolles).

This book was the main reason behind my intention to learn French. Now, I don’t have a motivation anymore :slight_smile: (I just saw this thread popping up in my unread list and thought I should share this story…)

I also completly lost my motivation to make some “learn ocaml with cleopatra” tutorials, because people really have a bad and hurtful humor with it. when i made “learn ocaml with the predator”, they found it funny to block me with three cars on the way when I tried to go watch the movie. if I make…

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Hi, is the french version avaible ondine for free pls ?

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