Introductory F# Resources

I recently gave an “Introduction to F#” session for the Cape Cod .NET User group and, with Talbott Crowell for the Boston MSDN Developer Conference.

(And for those of you in Maine, I’ll be delivering the session on February 19th with the Maine Bytes User Group in Portland.)

Here are some resources from the session along with others I hope you’ll find useful as you explore functional programming and F#.

Slides and Samples

• Slides - Introduction to F#.pptx
• Sample – F Sharp Samples from MSDN Code Gallery
  • Contains usage examples, tutorial, solar system (with units of measure), DirectX example, and more
• Sample – Async programming by Luca Bolognese

Resources

• Download the F# September 2008 CTP
• F# Developer Center
• Microsoft Research F# Home
• Don Syme’s Blog
• Luke Hoban’s Blog
• hubFS – F# Community Site

Videos

• Luca Bolognese’s F# PDC Session
• Don Syme on F#, and part two
• Data Visualization with F# (Luke Hoban)
• What’s New in F#

Books

• “Expert F#”
• “Foundations of F#"
• “F# for Scientists”
• “Real-World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#” – Not yet released
• “F# in a Nutshell” – Not yet released

Products

And, for the curious, a few commercial products written in F#:

• Coherent PDF Toolkit for .NET
• F# for Visualization
• F# for Numerics

I hope you enjoy delving into F#!

-Chris

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 28, 2009
  You should add the "No Fun"/"Fun" to the C#/F# code comparison slide :)

• Anonymous
  January 29, 2009
  Last week’s Boston MSDN Developer Conference was a resounding success!  Thank you the over 450 people

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  January 29, 2009
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