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Functional programming (FP) is the future of .NET programming, and F# is much more than just an FP language. Every professional .NET programmer needs to learn about FP, and there's no better way to do it than by learning F#, and no easier way to learn F# than from Foundations of F#.
If you're already familiar with FP, youll find F# the language youve always dreamed of. All .NET programmers will find F# an exciting real-world alternative to C# and Visual Basic. This book is likely to have many imitators, but few true competitors. Written by F# evangelist Rob Pickering, and tech reviewed by F#'s main designer, Don Syme, this is an elegant, comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the language and an incisive guide to using F# for real-world professional development. F# is the future of programming (not just on .NET), and the future is now.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- How to Obtain, Install, and Use F#
- Functional Programming
- Imperative Programming
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Organizing, Annotating, and Quoting Code
- F# Libraries
- User Interfaces
- Data Access
- Distributed Applications
- Language-Oriented Programming
- The F# Tool Suite and .NET Programming Tools
- Compatibility and Advanced Interoperation
About the Author
Robert Pickering is an extraordinarily prolific writer on F#. His F# Wiki
on his Strangelights.com website is among the most popular F# websites in
the world. He is a consultant for Avanade, lives in France, and works on
projects in England, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium. He received his B.Sc.
in Computer Science from Manchester University in 1999.
on his Strangelights.com website is among the most popular F# websites in
the world. He is a consultant for Avanade, lives in France, and works on
projects in England, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium. He received his B.Sc.
in Computer Science from Manchester University in 1999.
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This book is an excellent way to start programming F# in the .NET framework. The author guides you by example how to write and think the way of functional programming; it is fully detailed with explanations of how and why it is done this way.The book gives you all the information you need from scratch on how to obtain and install the necessary compilers for several operating systems. Apart from the tutorial examples the author also gives some insight on how this new programming language might develop for future use in real world applications and some past examples that were used. I fully recommend this book to new programmers that want to code in a different style to imperative programming.
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More reading to do on yet another operating language, but its very well written and a fine example of how a manual should be written, PLAIN ENGLISH, not geek speak, take note authors.
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Must have book in your bookshelf about F#,
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This review is from: Foundations of F# (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Hardcover)
"Foundations of F#" is a great introductory book for F# with some advanced samples. For those who are unfamiliar with functional programming, this book gives the notions of functional programming in all aspects while giving samples in the greatest platform with great language F#.This book includes functional, imperative and object oriented programming paradigms giving great samples. Robert Pickering also focuses to the imperative programmers by giving the usage differences in F#. He introduces a wide range F# data structures from simple arrays to quotations with great explanations. This book gives a lot of information on .NET Framework including the latest additions .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5. Samples with LINQ and Windows Presentation Foundation fulfil this area. If you are unfamiliar with .NET Framework, don't worry this book gives what you need to know about .NET framework in many different areas including network programming, web programming, database programming, and windows programming with clear and explanatory samples using relevant screenshots. The samples are unique and useful, it's not the examples that you can find on the web, and it's more specialised and focused on techniques specific to F# Personally I most liked Language Oriented Programming chapter which gives very specific features and usage tricks to F# to make the most of the language. It's a must have book in your bookshelf if you are interested in functional programming on .NET Framework
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