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Expert F# Available by end of November!

  • Artikkeli

At last! We've finally sent off the very last proofs of Expert F# to Apress - this time the index, TOC etc. Adam, Antonio and myself are grateful to have Erik Meijer writing the foreword for us, and Apress are dealing with the small metter of putting everything on paper and getting it shipped to the book stores.

I'm told it will be available by Nov 30, though I'm not sure of the exact date that translates to interms of shipping from Amazon etc.

To whet your appetite, here's the table-of-contents at a glance:

Foreword  

About the Authors  

About the Technical Reviewer  

Acknowledgments  

■CHAPTER 1 Introduction   1

■CHAPTER 2 Getting Started with F# and NET   7

■CHAPTER 3 Introducing Functional Programming   27

■CHAPTER 4 Introducing Imperative Programming   69

■CHAPTER 5 Mastering Types and Generics   101

■CHAPTER 6 Working with Objects and Modules   125

■CHAPTER 7 Encapsulating and Packaging Your Code   155

■CHAPTER 8 Mastering F#: Common Techniques   181

■CHAPTER 9 Introducing Language-Oriented Programming   211

■CHAPTER 10 Using the F# and NET Libraries   255

■CHAPTER 11 Working with Windows Forms and Controls   275

■CHAPTER 12 Working with Symbolic Representations   317

■CHAPTER 13 Reactive, Asynchronous, and Concurrent Programming   355

■CHAPTER 14 Building Web Applications   393

■CHAPTER 15 Working with Data   431

■CHAPTER 16 Lexing and Parsing   461

■CHAPTER 17 Interoperating with C and COM   491

■CHAPTER 18 Debugging and Testing F# Programs   523

■CHAPTER 19 Designing F# Libraries   545

■APPENDIX F# Brief Language Guide   563

■INDEX   571

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 25, 2007
    Congratulations! I've had this pre-ordered from Amazon for a long time now, and each month kept Amazon kept sending me "Your order has been delayed.  Please Approve or Cancel" messages. LOL But good things come to those who wait!

  • Anonymous
    October 25, 2007
    Great news Don. I have a kind-of (for some value) related question. With DevDiv embracing F# can we be sure that F# will continue to ship with its sources? Or will it tranfere to a SSCLI model where by there is source, but it's filtered to remove some code for reasons to competitive advantage? Finally - how does one go about getting a signed copy of your book? ;-) Kind regards, tom

  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2007
    Given the turn around time for publishing, what version of the language does the book cover? Hopefully things like computation expressions are included.

  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2007
    Congratulations! Looking forward to it.

  • Anonymous
    October 28, 2007
    Well done. From what I've seen already this will be extremely valuable to alot of people. Now that some people have "smiled upon" the language I imagine there will be great sales.

  • Anonymous
    October 28, 2007
    Congratulations! At first glance the table of contents seems not to be very different from "Foundations of F#" (don't have my copy here, though), so what sets "Expert F#" apart from the former? I'm especially interested in the "Expert" bit :-)

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2007
    Expert F# is about practical programming in a beautiful language that puts the power and elegance of

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2007
    Expert F# is about practical programming in a beautiful language that puts the power and elegance of