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Learn Bosque Programming: Boost your productivity and software reliability with Microsoft's new open-source programming language
Author(s): Sebastian Kaczmarek (Author), Joel Ibaceta (Author)
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 30 April 2021
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 1839211970
- ISBN-13: 9781839211973
Book Description
Discover the benefits of regularized programming by implementing Bosque to build a variety of reliable apps
Key Features
- Get up and running with the Bosque programming language and use it to build better software
- Streamline your app development and improve productivity using Bosque programming
- Eliminate sources of complexity such as loops, recursion, and invariants to develop quality products
Book Description
Bosque is a new high-level programming language inspired by the impact of structured programming in the 1970s. It adopts the TypeScript syntax and ML semantics and is designed for writing code that is easy to reason about for humans and machines. With this book, you’ll understand how Bosque supports high productivity and cloud-first development by removing sources of accidental complexity and introducing novel features.
This short book covers all the language features that you need to know to work with Bosque programming. You’ll learn about basic data types, variables, functions, operators, statements, and expressions in Bosque and become familiar with advanced features such as typed strings, bulk algebraic data operations, namespace declarations, and concept and entity declarations. This Bosque book provides a complete language reference for learning to program with Bosque and understanding the regularized programming paradigm. You’ll also explore real-world examples that will help you to reinforce the knowledge you’ve acquired. Additionally, you’ll discover more advanced topics such as the Bosque project structure and contributing to the project.
By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to configure the Bosque environment and build better and reliable software with this exciting new open-source language.
What you will learn
- Find out what the Bosque project is
- Identify accidental complexity in code and how to overcome it with Bosque
- Understand the principles of the regularized programming paradigm
- Install and configure the Bosque environment
- Get hands-on experience using the Bosque language and its key features
- Recognize the advantages of explicit code intermediate representation design
Who this book is for
This book is for experienced developers and early adopters who are interested in learning a new, mindset-changing programming language. You’ll also find this book useful if you know TypeScript or JavaScript programming and want to understand the advantages of Bosque compared to other programming languages. Experience with any programming language and knowledge of various programming paradigms such as structured programming and functional programming are required to get started with this book.
Table of Contents
- Exploring Bosque
- Configuring Bosque Environment
- Key features
- Entrypoint function
- Types and operators
- Bosque Statements
- Project: Bosque in the cloud
- Expressions
- Collections
- Iterative processing and recursion
- Project: AI classifier
- Namespaces, concepts, and entities
- Testing
- Project: Path optimizer
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This book is an excellent introduction to the Bosque programming language. It provides a step-by-step guide to get set up with the language + tools along with a good overview of the basic language features. More important is the in-depth coverage of the novel features in the language and the foundational concepts that drove the design of the language. The authors do an excellent job of clearly explaining the whys of these concepts, how they manifest themselves in the language, and the way they impact the approach to software development.
The coverage and explanations of the foundations of the Bosque language make this book more than a simple reference and makes reading it a way to learn about a novel programming paradigm. My personal favorite chapter is ‘Testing in Bosque’ which introduces the type of symbolic analysis tooling that is being built into the language and how it fits into the development process. The book uses a great range of examples to illustrate features, and some pitfalls, of the language in a way that ties everything together and demonstrates practical uses of the Bosque language.”
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Mark Marron, Lead on Bosque Language, Principal Research Software Development Engineer, Microsoft
About the Author
Sebastian Kaczmarek is an experienced programmer who specializes in web solutions. He holds an engineer’s degree in information technology and is a certified Linux administrator. In the projects he has been a part of, he has worked with many technologies such as JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, PHP, MySQL, Java, Hadoop, HBase, and Angular.
Sebastian is passionate about JavaScript and Node.js and loves to share his knowledge on Stack Overflow, where he has reached over 177,000 people with his helpful posts.
Currently, he’s working as a backend lead at a Polish software company where he is responsible for architecture design and the development of reliable solutions. In his free time, he likes reading books about astronomy and artificial intelligence.
Joel Ibaceta is an experienced software engineer who started writing code at an early age. Currently, he has more than 12 years of experience in the technology industry, building software and leading engineering teams throughout South America. He served as the technical leader of MercadoLibre, a Latin American unicorn, NASDAQ-100 company, and he currently works as co-founder and CTO of Kwema Inc., a US-based start-up that develops wearables for employees’ safety.
He is a well-known speaker in LatAm technical communities and a hackathon enthusiast who has won some global prizes such as the Facebook Community Challenge.
