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Learn Bosque Programming

By : Sebastian Kaczmarek, Joel Ibaceta
Book Image

Learn Bosque Programming

By: Sebastian Kaczmarek, Joel Ibaceta

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction
5
Section 2: The Bosque Language Overview
10
Section 3: Practicing Bosque
15
Section 4: Exploring Advanced Features

Chapter 14: Project: Path Optimizer

During the last few years, we have witnessed the emergence of new companies that have changed the way we take taxis, shop online, and drive our cars.

Many of these innovations have resulted from engineering teams' effort to build efficient algorithms to calculate the optimal routes to move from one geographical point to another at an optimal cost.

For this reason, we will learn how to solve an optimal path problem using Bosque to provide to our readers another practical Bosque application to solve real-world problems through the following topics:

  • Defining requirements
  • Implementation of the program
  • Building and running

At the end of this chapter, we will have learned how to implement one of the best-known algorithms for finding optimal routes using Bosque, which we will be able to use on practical real-life projects.