OCaml tutorials

Your Help is Needed

Many of the tutorials below need updating and tutorials on many new topics are needed. Please contribute by visiting this project's repo on GitHub; you may use the issue tracker there to request or offer new tutorials. Thanks!

Learn by Doing

Try OCaml Online (by OCamlPro) allows you to immediately start learning OCaml in your browser, without installing it. Compiled as a single Javascript page, it gives you the full power of OCaml, even when your are disconnected from the network.

PLEAC-OCaml provides OCaml solutions to the complete set of problems originally posed in the very successful Perl Cookbook. OCaml is one of only 3 languages for which the full set of solutions has been provided.

Rosetta is a programming chrestomathy site. It provides solutions to the same task in many languages. Currently there are few tasks with OCaml solutions provided, but perhaps you would like to add new solutions.

Tutorials on OCaml

The OCaml System (by Inria) is the official user's manual. The first part provides an introduction to the core language, objects and classes, and modules. Previous versions are here.

OCaml for scientific computation (by Thomas Fischbacher), covers a broad sample of OCaml, from the basics to the C API.

WikiBooks on OCaml

fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/OCaml (in French): Introduction on functional programming using OCaml.

fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Premiers_pas_en_OCaml (in French): The basics of the OCaml language.

There are also tutorials that can be useful to learn how to use popular tools and libraries.

Coming From Another Language

These tutorials help learn OCaml from the perspective of being familiar with another language.

Advanced Tutorials & Articles

Manual

Detecting use cases for GADTs in OCaml, (by Mads Hartmann), on using generalized algebraic data types in writing interpreters.

Archived Tutorials

These tutorials are either obsolete, or describe obsolete technologies. They're preserved here just in case they're still useful to someone.