This two day Fast Track to F# course is what you need to start using F# in practice and to get the most out of functional and concurrent programming concepts. The course is designed by F# experts Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford and builds on their real-world experience with F#.

F# is increasingly used in domains such as finance, gaming, mobile and web development, testing and more. The language makes it possible to solve complex problems with simple, maintainable and robust code.

In this course, we look at a number of applications. We explore how F# simplifies domain modelling and testing. Then we look at F# killer features for asynchronous and concurrent programming and for data processing.

After attending the course, you’ll be able to solve interesting problems with F#, but you’ll also become a better programmer in general.

Day 1 (Introduction and domain modelling)

Introducing F#

• How does F# fit with the rest of the world?
• Object-oriented F# from a C# perspective
• Working with F# types and functions
• How F# avoids NullReferenceExceptions

Domain modelling and DSLs

• Modelling problem domains with functional types (“Domain on a single page”)
• Implementing business logic in F#

Writing applications in F#

• Testing F# code and using F# as a testing tool
• Building a retail .NET application in F#

Day 2 (Killer applications for F#)

Data processing and F# 3.0 type providers

• Obtaining data with type providers
• Processing and visualizing data
• Numerical calculations and machine learning
• How do F# type providers work?

Asynchronous and concurrent programming

• How to write non-blocking computations
• Asynchronous workflows for server-side and client-side programming
• Introducing agent-based concurrency in F#
• Designing concurrent scalable data-processing systems in F#