F# Workshop

##Introduction## Do you want to learn F# and Functional Programming? Well, you better start coding!

Learning a new programming language is not easy, on top of reading a lot you need to practice even more.

This workshop is designed to teach you some of the basics of F# and Functional Programming by combining theory (slides) and practice (exercises).

Modules

The course is split into 5 modules, each of them contains a presentation (theory) and one exercise (practice).

Module 1

Bindings
Functions
Tuples
Records

Module 2

High order functions
Pipelining
Partial application
Composition

Module 3

Options
Pattern matching
Discriminated unions
Units of measure

Module 4

Functional lists
Recursion
List module

Module 5

Object Oriented Programming
Type providers

Pre-requisites

Minimum Requirements

Visual Studio 2013
Visual F# tools 3.1.2 or higher link
XUnit Runner link
Visual F# Power Tools (optional) link

Nuget Packages

XUnit link
Unquote link
SqlProvider (TypeProvider) [alpha] link
F# Data link

Recommended Learning Material

Choose the material by selecting the sentence that fits you best. It is recommended to review the first two before taking the workshop.

I don’t understand why people are talking so much about functional programming

Watch this video: Functional Programming: What? Why? When? by Robert C. Martin @unclebobmartin

I haven’t written F# before or I don’t remember much

Practice Online: Try F#

I need an intro to F# for C# developers

Watch this video: F# for the C# developer by Mathias Brandewinder @brandewinder

I want to play around with F# without writing much code

Practice using the Tutorial project in Visual Studio:

Add New Project -> Other Languages -> Visual F# -> Tutorial
View -> Other Windows -> F# Interactive
Open Tutorial.fsx
Highlight the code you want to execute and then right-click “Execute in Interactive” (Alt+Enter)

I can't remember F#'s syntax

Use this F# cheatsheet: html - pdf by Anh-Dung Phan @dungpa

I want to read a good book to learn Functional Programming and F#

Read this one: Real-World Functional Programming by Tomas Petricek @tomaspetricek

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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