Introduction to Functional Programming in FSharp

Introduction to Functional Programming in FSharp

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  An Introduction to Functional Programmingin F# Ian Russell @ijrussell
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  •Introduction •Why and where •InstallingF# •Dive in to some code •Resources •Ask questions as we go! Agenda
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  Why and Where •Why • We’re crap not very good at OO • Laws of Physics -> multi-core processors • Where • Banking • Data Science • Games [Halo] • Enterprise apps • … everywhere!
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  Installation • F# inVisual Studio 2012/2013 • F# Interactive (FSI) • Templates • Built-in • Extensions and Updates • Community stuff • F# in Xamarin Studio
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  Let’s dive in!
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  Summary • Immutable • List,Array and Sequence • Pattern matching • Recursion • Types (Record, Option and Union) • Tuples • Modules
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  Resources • Book ofF# (NoStarch) • F# for C# Programmers (Microsoft) • Programming F# 3.0 (Oreilly) • http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com • http://www.tryfsharp.org • http://fsharp.org
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  Thank you Ian Russell @ijrussell