##Introduction## Do you want to learn F# and Functional Programming? Well, you better start coding!

Learning a new programming language is not easy, on top of reading a lot you need to practice even more.

This workshop is designed to teach you some of the basics of F# and Functional Programming by combining theory (slides) and practice (exercises).

The course is split into 4 modules, each of them contains a presentation (theory) and one exercise (practice).

• Bindings
• Functions
• Tuples
• Records

• High order functions
• Pipelining
• Partial application
• Composition

• Options
• Pattern matching
• Discriminated unions
• Units of measure

• Functional lists
• Object-oriented programming
• Type providers

• Visual Studio 2015 Community or
• Xamarin Studio 6 or
• Atom + F# Compiler + Ionide package or
• Visual Studio Code + F# Compiler + Ionide package

• Xamarin Studio 6 + Mono or
• Atom + Mono + Ionide package or
• Visual Studio Code + Mono + Ionide package

• Atom + Mono + Ionide package or
• Visual Studio Code + Mono + Ionide package

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Video: Functional Programming: What? Why? When? by Robert C. Martin

Video: 5 Reasons to Move from C# to F# by Jorge Fioranelli

Practice Online: Try F#

Book: Real-World Functional Programming by Tomas Petricek

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Copyright 2015 Jorge Fioranelli