Apress Expert F Sharp Dec 2007 eBook BBL

Expert F# (c) by Apress

The type of the release is: eBook

In the PDF format with ISBN: 1590598504 and Pub Date: December 04, 2007

The size of the release is: 03 disks x 2.88mb

And released on: 01/08/2008

Expert F# is about practical programming in a beautiful language that

puts the power and elegance of functional programming into the hands of

.NET developers. In combination with .NET, F# achieves unrivaled levels

of programmer productivity and program clarity. This books serves as

- The authoritative guide to F# by the designer of F#

- A comprehensive reference of F# concepts, syntax, and features

- A treasury of expert F# techniques for practical, real-world

programming While inspired by OCaml, F# isn't just another functional

programming language. Drawing on many of the strengths of both OCaml and

.NET, it's a general-purpose language ideal for real-world development.

F# integrates functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming

styles so you can flexibly and elegantly solve programming problems, and

brings .NET development alive with interactive execution. Whatever your

background, you'll find that F# is easy to learn, fun to use, and

extraordinarily powerful. F# will help change the way you think about

and go about programming. Written by F#'s designer and two active

contributors, Expert F# is the authoritative, comprehensive, and

in-depth guide to the language and its use. Designed to help others

become experts, the book gives a thorough introduction to the F#

language from quick essentials to in-depth advanced topics such as

active pattern matching, aggregate data types and operators, sequence

expressions, lazy values, mutable data and side-effects, generics, type

augmentations, functional decomposition and code organization. The

second half of the book is devoted to examining the practical

application of F#, providing elegant solutions to common programming

tasks including UI implementation, data access, web and distributed

programming, symbolic and numerical computations, concurrent

programming, testing, profiling, and interoperability with other

languages. The latest hot developments in F# and .NET are also

addressed, including Active Patterns, implicit class construction,

integration with LINQ over relational data, meta programming and useful

tips for working with Visual Studio and F# command-line tools. The

world's foremost experts in F# show you how to program in F# the way

they do!

What you'll learn

- How to use F# for functional, imperative, and object-oriented

programming

- How to code elegant F# solutions with expert technique and style

- How to develop Windows, web, graphics, and database applications in

F#

- How to do numerical, concurrent, lexical, and symbolic processing in

F#

- How to interoperate with C and COM

Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone interested in state-of-the art .NET programming.

Professional programmers will find it engrossing. F# provides invaluable

insight into the future of both C# and VB, which are now adopting some

(but far from all) of the functional features of F#. Once they learn F#,

few feel like returning to either C# or VB. The academic community will

find F# the answer to a decades-long prayer: a language suitable for

teaching computer science that also excites and empowers students

because it can be used not just in the classroom, but also in the real

world.

Related Titles

Foundations of F#

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