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Essential F# Programming

2 days practical workshop for up to 12 people.

Only £790 per person

F# is a functional programming language and hence adopts a style which bows to both procedural and object-oriented methods. It derives from the need to express things almost mathematically, but using algorithms and formulas implemented in programming language syntax.

Layout

The course is spread over a two-day period and comprises of instructor-led presentations and practical hands-on exercises. The practical sessions are structured to give the delegates the opportunity to put into practice all of the language constructs covered during the instructor-led sessions. The delegates will be able to take away with them copies of all the code they have written, along with sample solutions and demonstration code. The course contains applications which make use of Visual Studio .NET, but does not rely on it.

Training Course Objectives

Write, maintain and debug F# console applications
Make effective use of some of the core F# functionality
Write functional-based and object-oriented code.

Who it is for

This training course is designed for experienced programmers that need to start developing F# applications

Training Course Prerequisites

Experienced in a block-structured language such as Pascal, modern variants of Basic, Smalltalk, Ada, C or C++, Java
Familiar with concepts such as functions or procedures, control flow, arrays, and structures or records
Knowledge of C++, Java or the other .NET languages is neither assumed nor required

Chapters

Chapter 1 F# Program Quick start

Describe the basic components of a F# application
Describe the process used by both the F# interpretor and the F# compiler
Write a simple F# program

Chapter 2 Simple Datatypes and Operators

Use and define primitive datatypes
Use and define identifiers
Use operators and operator precedence
Use conversions and scope
List some of the non-primitive types

Chapter 3 Control Flow

Use boolean operators and conditional selection
Use iteration and looping constructs

Chapter 4 Aggregate Data

Describe the concept of arrays, lists, tuples and sequences
Perform simple manipulation on aggregate data
Make an educational choice between aggregate types

Chapter 5 Functions

Implement and invoke functions
Describe function type-constraints and data passing mechanisms
Describe specialised usage of functions

Chapter 6 Object Models

Model real-world problems
Define classification and functionality

Chapter 7 Classes