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 4 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
• Object-oriented programming
• Type providers

Pre-requisites

• .NET Core SDK
• Visual Studio Code
• Ionide Package
• Mono (Mac only)
• Mono, F# Compiler and F# Interactive (Linux only)

Workshop Feedback

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"Thanks to @jorgefioranelli for teaching and @Valtech for hosting an awesome F# workshop last Saturday in London, learned a lot." @pedromsantos tweet

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Recommended Learning Material

Video: Functional Programming: What? Why? When? by Robert C. Martin

Video: 5 Reasons to Move from C# to F# by Jorge Fioranelli

Practice Online: dotnetfiddle

Book: Real-World Functional Programming by Tomas Petricek

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Copyright 2018 Jorge Fioranelli