Expert F# 3.0 is about practical programming in a beautiful language that puts the power and elegance of data-rich functional programming into the hands of professional developers. In combination with .NET, F# achieves unrivaled levels of programmer productivity and program clarity.

Expert F# 3.0 is:

• A comprehensive guide to F# by the inventor of F#
• A treasury of F# techniques for practical problem-solving
• An in-depth case book of how F# applications and of F# 3.0 concepts, syntax, and features

F# isn't just another functional programming language. It's a general-purpose language ideal for solving real-world development problems. F# seamlessly integrates functional, imperative, object-oriented and query programming styles so you can flexibly and elegantly solve any programming problem. F# 3.0 combines this with the seamless data-integration capabilities of F# Information-Rich Programming. Whatever your background, you’ll find that F# is easy to learn, fun to use, and extraordinarily powerful. F# will change the way you think about—and go about—programming.

Written by F#'s inventor and two major F# community members, Expert F# 3.0 is a comprehensive and in-depth guide to the language and its use. Designed to help others become experts, the book quickly yet carefully describes the paradigms supported by F# language, and then shows how to use F# elegantly for a practical web, data, parallel and analytical programming tasks.

The world's experts in F# show you how to program in F# the way they do!

2. Your First F# Program – Getting Started With F#

3. Introducing Functional Programming

4. Introducing Imperative Programming

5. Understanding Types in Functional Programming

6. Programming with Objects

7. Encapsulating and Organizing Your Code

8. Working with Textual Data

9. Working with Sequences and Structured Data

10. Numeric Programming and Charting

11. Reactive, Asynchronous, and Parallel Programming

12. Symbolic Programming with Structured Data

13. Integrating External Data and Services

14. Building Smart Web Applications

15. Building Mobile Web Applications

16. Visualization and Graphical User Interfaces

17. Language-Oriented Programming: Advanced Techniques

18. Libraries and Interoperating with Other Languages

19. Packaging, Debugging and Testing F# Code

20. Designing F# Libraries

21. Appendix