Tutorials

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Here are some tutorials and other introductions to using boo:

Tutorials on this site

• The boo manifesto by its creator, Rodrigo B. de Oliveira
• The boo Language Guide - list of pages covering stuff not yet covered in other tutorials
• Boo Primer - a reference/tutorial on programming concepts in boo, by Cameron Kenneth Knight
• Hello Boo - a beginner tutorial - by Arron Washington
• Advanced Tutorial, Learning Boo Kung-Fu - by Arron Washington
• Sample GTK-SHARP application - by Arron Washington
• Differences with Python
• Differences with C#
• Boo as an embedded scripting language - by Arron Washington
• A basic guide to unit tests in Boo

External Documentation:

• The Book of Boo - an editable book of docs on boo, started by Steve Donovan
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning to Program with Boo - by J. Bryan Kelly
• BOOTORIAL - by Roy Shammah
• Boo Succinctly Revealed - by Rolly Noel

Sample Code

• Cookbook - numerous code samples covering topics like using databases, etc.
• Applications - applications built with boo

See also the boo scripts in the examples folder included with boo. There are also many illustrative samples under tests/testcases, especially in the integration subfolder.

External Reviews & Tutorials

• Dynamic .NET scripting with Boo - by Edd Dumbill
• Boo! - nice intro to boo's features by Zef Hemel <<<--- CAN'T FIND IT
• The Boo Programming Language - very in depth examples of things you can do in boo, by Steve Donovan
• Introduction to Boo: The synthesis of static and dynamic? - looks at how you get the best of both worlds by combining static typing and Duck Typing, by Andy Bulka
• Developing & Debugging visually in Boo - using the Microsoft debugger, by Andy Bulka
• A Comparison of Ruby and Boo - by Kartik Vaddadi <<<--- CAN'T FIND IT
• Sample Silverlight Tetris in Boo (and IronPython) - by Vladimir Lazunin

Advanced / Specialized Tutorials

• How to Inject Code from XSLT Transformations
• Use XSLT Transformations to Ease Glade#
• Dependency Injection and Scripted Configuration for Enterprise Development - Part 1
• Dependency Injection and Scripted Configuration for Enterprise Development - Part 2

Tutorials in Other Languages

• Boo Primer in Traditional Chinese (繁體中文), translated by Yan-ren Tsai aka Elleryq.
• Boo Primer in Portuguese, translated by Cássio Rogério Eskelsen <<<--- CAN'T FIND IT
• Boo... el fantasma de Python (Español) - Post going over some examples of using boo.