F# Jumpstart

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Get started with F#. Transform your experience of .NET/Mono development in less than 90 minutes.

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Course Description

F# is a .NET (CLI) language. It combines functional and OO (Object Oriented) concepts to you let you solve complex problems with simple code. F# is surprisingly easy to learn. This course covers all the fundamentals, and is suitable for anyone with basic software development experience.

Course Description

F# is a .NET (CLI) language. It combines functional and OO (Object Oriented) concepts to you let you solve complex problems with simple code. F# is surprisingly easy to learn. This course covers all the fundamentals, and is suitable for anyone with basic software development experience.

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Course Syllabus

Introduction
- 5m 45s

—Introduction and Getting Started 1m 3s
—Where F# Sits in the .NET Ecosystem 0m 39s
—Creating and Running a Console Program 2m 4s
—Using F# Interactive to Experiment with Code 1m 57s

Values, Functions and Flow of Control
- 15m 1s

—Binding Values and Functions Using 'let' 1m 37s
—Functions, Indentation, Type Inference 2m 54s
—Overriding Type Inference 0m 49s
—Branching with 'if' 1m 4s
—Looping with 'for' 0m 54s
—Nesting Functions 1m 12s
—Creating, Returning and Decomposing Tuples 1m 41s
—Tupling Function Arguments; Partial Application 2m 37s
—Passing and Returning Nothing with 'Unit' 0m 59s
—Summary 1m 9s

Arrays, Collections and Higher Order Functions
- 18m 19s

—Introduction 0m 30s
—Creating Arrays 3m 51s
—Basic Array Processing 1m 23s
—Filtering Arrays 2m 11s
—Sorting, Iterating and the Forward-pipe Operator 2m 6s
—Mapping Arrays 1m 29s
—F# Lists 1m 35s
—Sequences 2m 37s
—Summary 2m 34s

Records, Option Types, Discriminated Unions and Pattern Matching
- 14m 34s

—Introduction 0m 44s
—Record Types 2m 26s
—Option Types 3m 22s
—Discriminated Unions and Pattern Matching 3m 10s
—The Match Keyword 2m 44s
—Summary 2m 6s

Immutability and Shadowing
- 9m 12s

—Introduction 0m 53s
—Immutability by Default and Shadowing 3m 0s
—Benefits of Immutability 0m 54s
—Overriding Immutability 3m 23s
—Summary 1m 0s

Object Oriented Types
- 15m 47s

—Introduction 0m 49s
—Declaring an OO Type (Class) in F# 1m 42s
—Making Your Type Mutable with Getters and Setters 1m 0s
—Using Member Val to Create Autoproperties 1m 1s
—Doing Work in Constructors 1m 34s
—Declaring and Implementing Interfaces 2m 31s
—Using F# Code from C# - F# Interfaces 2m 42s
—Using F# Code from C# - Discriminated Unions 3m 52s
—Summary 0m 32s

Conclusion and Wrap-up
- 6m 28s

—F# as a CLI language 1m 34s
—Arrays 2m 5s
—Immutability 1m 2s
—Materials for Further Study 1m 44s