Mastering F#

Key Features

• Learn how to manage, run, and automate your servers using Puppet
• Explore how to use F# to develop large-scale applications quickly and simply, and become more productive in today’s age of cloud computing and multi-core programming
• This easy-to-follow guide is packed with real-world examples that will jump-start you with F# development on the .NET platform

Book Description

F# is a multi-paradigm programming language that encompasses object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming language properties. Now adopted in a wide range of application areas and is supported both by industry-leading companies who provide professional tools and by an active open community, F# is rapidly gaining popularity as it emerges in digital music advertising, creating music-focused ads for Spotify, Pandora, Shazam, and anywhere on the web.

This book will guide you through the basics and will then help you master F#. The book starts by explaining how to use F# with Visual Studio, file ordering, and the differences between F# and C# in terms of usage. It moves on to explain the functional core of F# such as data types, type declarations, immutability, strong type interference, pattern matching, records, F# data structures, sequence expressions, and lazy evaluation. Next, the book takes you through imperative and asynchronous programming, F# type providers, applications, and testing in F#. Finally, we look into using F# with distributed programming and using F# as a suitable language for data science. In short, this book will help you learn F# for real-world applications and increase your productivity with functional programming.

What you will learn

• Understand the basics of F# and organize F# source code with Visual Studio
• Work with F# data structures and create functional data structures in F# interoperate with C#
• Build and use asynchronous programming patterns with F#
• Create and use type providers that help perform data analysis from within Visual Studio
• Develop applications with pure F# code in WPF or ASP.NET MVC
• Find out how to perform distributed programming with ServiceBus or ZeroMQ
• Visualize data with charts, and work with Excel and R language Type providers

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting Started in F#
Chapter 2. Functional Core with F#
Chapter 3. Data Structures in F#
Chapter 4. Imperative Programming in F#
Chapter 5. Asynchronous Programming
Chapter 6. Type Providers
Chapter 7. Web Programming in F#
Chapter 8. Application Development in F#
Chapter 9. Testing in F#
Chapter 10. Distributed Programming in F#