Don Syme’s F# deck from JAOO

by Doug Finke on October 12, 2009

in .Net,F#,JAOO

Don Syme, creator of F#, posts his F# tutorial he presented at JAOO 2009. Over 100 crunchy slides.

Some highlights of the code are:

  • Foundational material on F# async programming, and samples including:
    • Fetching web pages in parallel
    • The Bing translator sample using async programming
    • A Graphical, asynchronous twitter client in 50 lines
    • A Twitter feed example that uses F# first class reactive event processing to process the stream of feeds
    • An asynchronous web crawler
    • Processing images in parallel, using a mixture of I/O and CPU parallelism
  • An updated version of the famous Interactive DirectX demo
  • Lots of great micro samples on foundational topics such as
    • object oriented programming
    • language oriented programming
    • function composition
    • design patterns
    • discriminated unions
    • records
    • units of measure

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