* [Try OCaml in your browser](http://try.ocamlpro.com/) (slow, bare-bones) * This site's guide to [[Installing OCaml|/installing#ocaml]] * [What is OCaml?](http://ocaml.org/learn/description.html) * [Code Examples](http://ocaml.org/learn/taste.html) * [A brief introduction to OCaml](http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~scott/pl/lectures/caml-intro.html) * [Cheat Sheets](http://ocaml.org/docs/cheat_sheets.html) * Wikipedia on [ML](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_%28programming_language%29), [Caml](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caml), and [OCaml](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml) Overviews: [A Concise Introduction to Objective Caml](http://www.csc.villanova.edu/~dmatusze/resources/ocaml/ocaml.html), David Matuszek from 2000 "gives a concise, yet broad, overview of the language and the standard library; it is rather old but most of what it says remains valid"; OCaml Wiki's Tutorial page links to this [OCaml Tutorial by Example](http://xahlee.org/ocaml/ocaml_basics.html), Xah Lee from 2009 BROKEN overview link: , aimed at readers who already have some programming experience. BROKEN briefer: BROKEN "Quick Reference Guide" * [OCaml Wiki](http://ocaml.org/) * [INRIA](http://caml.inria.fr/) ## Tutorials ## * The [start of the OCaml Manual](http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/coreexamples.html) has a tutorial * [More Tutorials](http://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/) * First 3 chapters of *OCaml from the Very Beginning*: [1](http://ocaml-book.com/s/11-17Chapter1.pdf) [2](http://ocaml-book.com/s/19-25Chapter2.pdf) [3](http://ocaml-book.com/s/29-33Chapter3.pdf) * Chapter [1](http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/chapter1.html) of *OCaml for Scientists* * Chapter [1](http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~fangohr/software/ocamltutorial/lecture1.html) of *OCaml for Scientific Computation* * [Introduction to Objective Caml](http://files.metaprl.org/doc/ocaml-book.pdf) (284 pp. text from 2008, based on Jason Hickey's course at CalTech) * [Think OCaml](http://greenteapress.com/thinkocaml/thinkocaml.pdf) (142 pp. pdf) ### Other ### * [Comparing SML to OCaml](http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/sml-vs-ocaml.html) * [Introduction to OCaml for Haskellers](http://foswiki.cs.uu.nl/foswiki/pub/Stc/BeyondFunctionalProgrammingInHaskell:AnIntroductionToOCaml/ocaml.pdf) ## Advanced Docs, listed here for reference ## * [User's manual](http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/index.html), including [standard library](http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/index.html) * [Latest release](http://ocaml.org/releases/latest/) * OPAM package manager: [usage](https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Usage.html) | [repository](https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/) | [issues](https://github.com/OCaml/opam-repository/issues) * [Style guidelines](http://caml.inria.fr/resources/doc/guides/guidelines.en.html) ## FAQs ## * [Beginner FAQ](http://mirror.ocamlcore.org/caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/FAQ/FAQ_DEBUTANT-eng.html), last modified 2004 * [Expert FAQ](http://mirror.ocamlcore.org/caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/FAQ/FAQ_EXPERT-eng.html), last modified 2004 * [INRIA's FAQ](http://caml.inria.fr/resources/doc/faq/) * [OCaml.org FAQ](http://ocaml.org/learn/faq.html) * --- * [Glossary](http://mirror.ocamlcore.org/ocaml-tutorial.org/glossary.html) * [Tips for using the OCaml toplevel](http://mirror.ocamlcore.org/wiki.cocan.org/tips_for_using_the_ocaml_toplevel.html) * [Debugging](http://caml.inria.fr/resources/doc/guides/debug.en.html) * [Making code run fast](http://mirror.ocamlcore.org/caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/ocaml/speed.html) --- * [Reddit's r/ocaml](https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml) * [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ocaml?sort=faq) questions tagged "ocaml" * [Real World OCaml](https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/index.html) (510 pp. text from 2013) * [How to intercept stdout?](http://mirror.ocamlcore.org/ocaml-tutorial.org/newbie_faq.html) * [What's the difference between Invalid_argument and Failure?](http://mirror.ocamlcore.org/wiki.cocan.org/cocan%27s_ocaml_faq.html)