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Tomas Petricek & Phil Trelford's Functional Programming in C# and F# (FUNCT-PROG-NET-NYC-01-02)

CODE: FUNCT-PROG-NET-NYC-01-02 DURATION: 2 DAY/S

Tomas Petricek’s and Phil Trelford’s two-day Functional Programming in C# and F# course explains the concepts that you need to write modern applications for .NET using F#, C# with LINQ as well as current and upcoming .NET technologies that arise from functional programming ideas -- as described in the book Real World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#.

Functional ideas are becoming ubiquitous in the .NET world. F# is a Visual Studio language; C# 3.0 includes many functional constructs; Reactive extensions (Rx) are based on functional design and upcoming version of C# is inspired by F# asynchronous workflows.

Learning several simple functional concepts will help you understand these technologies and use them effectively. This means that the course will make you a better programmer even if you’re not going to immediately start using F#. This course is based on experience of developing commercial applications in F# and we’ll discuss good ways of introducing F# to your daily work.

LEARN HOW TO:

You’ll learn how to use and understand functional programming concepts and technologies in practice on the .NET platform.
Think in the functional way and use this thinking when designing .NET applications
Write effective and succinct code in F#
Combine F# functional libraries F# with object-oriented components in C#.
Model problem domains using functional types
Write reactive and asynchronous applications

PROGRAMME

Day 1 - Introducing functional concepts

From functional programming in C# to F#

How F# fits with the rest of the world?
Translating object-oriented C# to F#
Using immutable types in C# and F#

Working with functional concepts

Using functions as values
Declarative list processing and how LINQ works
Declarative event processing using F# and Reactive Extensions (Rx)

Understanding and refactoring functional code

Parallelizing CPU-intensive computations
Testing functional programs and .NET applications with F#

Day 2 - Point of sale application in 1 day

Understanding functional design

Using primitive functional data types: Records and Discriminated unions
Domain modelling using functional types
Writing programs as transformations between domain models
Creating abstract data types

Reactive and data-oriented programming

Sequence expressions and the workflow syntax
Asynchronous user-interface programming
Completing Silverlight application

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Tomas Petricek is a long time F# enthusiast, using F# since the early Microsoft Research versions. He has been a Microsoft C# MVP since 2004, and together with Jon Skeet wrote Real-world Functional Programming which explains basic functional concepts
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Phil Trelford is a Software Architect at an ISV that supplies real-time electronic trading software. His career so far spans over 15 years, with experience in video games, leisure, retail and financial sectors. Phil’s recent commercial development wo
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IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?

If you are software developer or architect and want to dip your toes into functional programming, the Functional Programming in C# and F# course is for you! No matter if you want to start evaluating or using F#, if you want to gain new perspective on software architecture or if you want to become a better C# programme, the course is for you.

COURSE PREREQUISITES

To benefit from this Functional Programming in .NET course, you should have working knowledge of some object-oriented language. This course doesn’t require any prior experience with F# or functional programming. Prior to this course, you will receive a brief document that reviews important features of C# 3.0 (from the standard object-oriented point of view) that we’ll use in some practical exercises during the first day.

BRING YOUR LAPTOP

You are requested to bring your own laptop to this Functional Programming in .NET course. If you are unable to bring a laptop for the course, please contact us on +1 347 708 1529 or email sales@skillsmatter.com

COURSE LABS & EXERCISES

A brief theoretical introduction to every concept will be followed by numerous practical demos and exercises. At the end of the second day, you’ll leave with a complete real-world application developed using F#.