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POE Jun 09, 2021

The authors did a phenomenal job introducing Microsoft’s new open-source programming language, Bosque. The book starts with relevant history and, most importantly, details the importance of Bosque to developers. Just when you think there is no room for another programming language, Bosque is introduced, and this book serves as a great guide. Yu will need to install Node.js, NPM, TypeScript, and a C++ compiler on your computer to follow the programming examples. The book’s early chapters provide sufficient details to get you up and running.This book was appropriately written for experienced developers. The assumed programming knowledge will help readers quickly grasp the new language’s constructs as well as the regularized programming paradigm. Basic topics include language features, data types, loops, recursion, and syntax. More advanced topics include how to implement the cloud computing with Bosque, expressions, collections, testing, and more.The book also includes two excellent appendices that have more advanced Bosque-related concepts as well as a look at Bosque’s future. All said, this book is a great read for any developer looking to increase efficiency or just to try something new.

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S M Jun 11, 2021

I had only heard about Bosque before in passing, but I was a skeptic. One more programming language. Why? The authors explain in detail what the language aims to solve and how to install/configure it. And then, throughout the rest of book proceed to flesh out a comprehensive reference. It's well-organized, going from fundamentals to more advanced topics. As a data scientist, I particularly enjoyed the "Project: A.I. Classifier" chapter which provided insight into how you can put many of the elements learned in previous chapters together to train a machine learning model.

Swati Srivastava Jul 31, 2021

This book serves as a great cookbook for Bosque - Microsoft's new open-source programming language. The thing I like about this book is that it assumes nothing. It starts off with explaining why another programming language is needed, how to setup an environment (which is huge because without this the rest of the book will be useless and most beginners get stumped at this step), what are its building blocks, how to come up with complex stuff and finally how to test your code. It also includes a few exercises which I haven't practiced yet, but looking at the quality of the rest of the book, I am sure they will be useful. All in all, I recommend this book to anyone who wants to explore Bosque!

Jason William Alls Jun 21, 2021

The book itself is very well-written. If it were not for this book, I would have never known such a programming language by Microsoft called Bosque. This programming language is an open-source programming language actively developed by Microsoft and is still in its infant stages. Therefore, the language and its setup are still very much in flux. And that is where I struggled with this book. It is indeed accurate for the date and time it was written. But the setup instructions since then seem to have changed somewhat, and unfortunately, the website instructions also seem outdated as they don't work. Because of the difficulty in setting up the language with the language setup changing over time, this book gets 4 stars instead of 5.But if we see past the teething problems of downloading the language, building it, and deploying it to VSCode, then we have an up-and-coming computer programming language by Microsoft that is very much geared towards cloud computer programming and deployment.The book does an excellent job of teaching you the ins and outs of computer programming using the Bosque programming language and providing why we need yet another programming language. And this book makes that case extremely well.This book is a very good introduction to the Bosque language, why it exists, and how to write projects with it, compile them, and deploy them to the cloud using Microsoft Azure. Testing, contributing to the project, expressions, and AI classification are all covered in this book.I am confident that should you read this book as an introduction to Bosque, that you will not be disappointed. Just keep in mind that the language is new and still in active development. If you encounter problems with the source code, by all means, contribute to the project.In the latest versions of the project, the make-exe script and Dockerfile appear to have been removed. The second chapter of this book mentions executing the non-existent make-exe script, and online resources make use of the non-existent Dokcerfile instead. So, to get the software to run on your computer, you may need to investigate the check-in history of the project, and then download the version that suits your needs.Apart from not being able to compile and run the source, I found the book interesting in its overall subject matter. I like the conversational style of the book and the instructions for performing tasks.Chapter 7 discussed using Boque in the cloud. The chapter used node and express to expose our API and I found this particularly interesting.I see this book evolving over time with new editions as the Bosque programming language is further developed by Microsoft and the open-source community.

ivo balbaert Aug 31, 2021

Having worked through half of the book, I probably have a good view on it. The book presents a good overview of Bosque and how it is likely to be used. Keep in mind however that it is targeted at version 0.5 of the language, which can be found in the LearnBosqueProgramming branch on GitHub.The book cannot be followed from the master branch, which is at the moment of writing incomplete. It is difficult to estimate how much versions 0.8 and higher will differ from the version 0.5 described in the book. Given the difficulty of writing a book on a language still in development, the authors did a good job. However, quite a few of the examples don't (yet) work because the used feature wasn't yet implemented or buggy (this is mostly indicated in the text). Also I noticed quite a few errors in the code samples (typographical, old syntax, etc.), some strange uses of English, and a few inconsistencies in the book structure.(e.g. the term value pack used at a certain moment, referring to a previous explanation where the term was not used). A positive point is that the authors made the effort to write realistic examples, and they included 3 projects to illustrate how Bosque could be used in real-world software; that's why I scored it 4/5. All in all, the book provides a good introduction to Bosque, fulfilling a need because of the lack of tutorials and consistent documentation on the GitHub Bosque site at the moment. The book deserves a good update when Bosque v1.0 will be published.

Learn Bosque Programming: Boost your productivity and software reliability with Microsoft's new open-source programming language

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