Mastering F#

Mastering F#

English | 2016 | ISBN: 978-1784393434 | 299 Pages | PDF, EPUB | 10 MB

A comprehensive and in-depth guide to writing functional programs using F#
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
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