The Definitive Guide to F# is about practical programming in a beautiful language that puts the power and elegance of functional programming into the hands of professional developers. In combination with .NET, F# achieves unrivaled levels of programmer productivity and program clarity. F# isn't just another functional programming language. It's a general-purpose language ideal for real- world development. F# seamlessly integrates functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming styles so you can flexibly and elegantly solve any programming problem. Whatever your background, you'll find that F# is easy to learn, fun to use, and extraordinarily powerful. F# will change the way you think about-and go about-programming.
By:
Don Syme,
Adam Granicz,
Antonio Cisternino
Imprint: APress
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: 1st ed.
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 31mm
Weight: 1.162kg
ISBN: 9781430224310
ISBN 10: 1430224312
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 01 June 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Replaced By: 9781430246503
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Getting Started with F# and .NET.- Creating Your First F# Program— Introducing Functional Programming.- Introducing Imperative Programming.- Mastering Types and Generics.- Working with Objects and Modules.- Encapsulating and Packaging Your Code.- Mastering F#: Common Techniques.- Introducing Language-Oriented Programming.- Using the F# and .NET Libraries.- Building Graphical User Interfaces.- Working with Symbolic Representations.- Reactive, Asynchronous, and Parallel Programming.- Building Smart Web Applications.- 15]Working with Data.- Lexing and Parsing.- Interoperating with C and COM.- Debugging and Testing F# Programs.- Designing F# Libraries.
strongDon Syme/strong is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and the main designer of F#. Since joining Microsoft Research in 1998, he has been a seminal contributor to a wide variety of leading-edge projects, including generics in C# and the .NET Common Language Runtime, F# itself, F# asynchronous programming and units of measure in F#. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in 1999.