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  • Hardcover: 360 pages
  • Publisher: APRESS ACADEMIC (30 May 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1590597575
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590597576
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 18 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 142,231 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Functional programming (FP) is the future of .NET programming and F# is much, 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 this book. Those already familiar with FP will find F# the language they’ve always dreamed of. All .NET programmers will find F# an exciting real-world alternative to C# and Visual Basic. This is the first book to bring F# to the world. It is likely to have many imitators but few competitors. Written by F# evangelist, Rob Pickering, and tech reviewed by F#’s inventor, Don Syme, it 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.

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Foundations of F#, 7 Jun 2007
By David Sainz "VaticanSIN" (York, UK) - See all my reviews
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Must have book in your bookshelf about F#, 13 Aug 2007
By Can Erten (Reading,UK) - See all my reviews
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"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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By Lloyd Moore "Lloyd" (Alicante, Spain) - See all my reviews
You only have to see the name of the author and the name of the technical reviewer to rightfully expect a great introduction to programming F sharp. Although I do not have a solid background in the .net environment, with this book, I am quickly becoming more accustomed to the libraries and at the same time, being able to apply my knowledge of ocaml to personal projects like rss feeds, word analysis of web sites and a mini language for writing database driven sites. There are excellent insights to the strengths of what surely will prove to be a powerful combination of a fantastic powerful functional language coupled with arguable the most powerful windows programming framework around. Well done. I look forward to progressing to Don Symes' Expert F#
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