Join us for this 2-day, 2-track F# event, packed with hands-on tutorials covering the latest developments in the fast moving world of F# Programming. Whether new to F# or seasoned veteran, be ready for an action packed two day adventure.

Don't forget to bring your own laptop!

experts

Learn and share skills with the F# world's foremost experts on hand, including Don Syme, Tomas Petricek, Phil Trelford and Chris Marinos (and others), each giving hands-on in-depth tutorials which are sure to bring fresh insight and challenge no matter your level of skill.

beginners track

Having some trouble getting a handle on F# or just functional programming in general? Work through our beginner track and start from the basics. You can be confident that after two days of full time functional immersion you'll have some seriously improved skills. No prior F# experience is required whatsoever.

meaty track

Wishing for more meaty F# content? Our advanced track will dive deep into F# 3.0 features, explore how to solve difficult problems using functional programming, and perhaps even glimpse the nature of functional programming itself. This is a rare opportunity to push yourself and learn deeply about the language you've already come to love..

programme

Tuesday 5th June 2012
Track 1 09.00 - 09.30    WELCOME, REGISTRATION, COFFEE & TEA Welcome to the Progressive F# Tutorials in NYC! We'll process your registration over a cuppa!     09.30 - 10.30    FUNCTIONAL-FIRST TECHNIQUES Don Syme: With the advent of F# and other applied functional-first languages, we now regularly see people applying functional-first programming languages and techniques to quantitative finance, financial engineering, calculation engines and trading platforms. In this talk we’ll take a look at the business proposition for this class of language, taking a good look at the core value proposition of robust, efficient analytical programming. more...     10.45 - 13.45    BEGINNERS TRACK - F# KOANS Chris Marinos: The F# koans will lead you on the path to F# enlightenment. Come with your laptop, an open mind, and willingness to learn. Leave with a better understanding of F#, functional programming, and test driven development. If you're new to F#, you'll learn the basics of the language and get your fingers working writing F# code right away. more...     13.45 - 14.30    LUNCH     14.30 - 17.30    BEGINNERS TRACK - F# CODE KATAS Phil Trelford & Chris Marinos: After learning a bit of F# syntax and programming style, it is time to deepen your skills via code kata exercises. This session will help you shift into the functional mindset and you’ll learn about the functional approach to solving problems. more...	Track 2         10.45 - 13.45    ADVANCED TRACK - TYPE PROVIDERS Keith Battocchi & Don Syme: Type providers are one of the most important new features of F# 3.0, allowing users to get strongly typed access to a variety of data sources. more...         14.30 - 17.30    ADV TRACK - NUMERICAL COMPUTING Tomas Petricek & Adam Mlocek: Many developers need to implement solutions which require some math or stat modelling. In this session we will show you how F# allows us to write elegant and expressive numerical code. You will work with matrices, random number generators and linear solvers. more...
Wednesday 6th June 2012
Track 1 09.00 - 09.30    WELCOME, REGISTRATION, COFFEE & TEA     09.30 - 13.00    DSLS IN F# Tomas Petricek & Phil Trelford: When designing software, developers often need to solve numerous instances of a single problem. Examples include writing business rules engine, detecting patterns in changing prices and many others. Domain specific languages (DSLs) provide a powerful mechanism for solving such problems – by designing a single composable library (or a language), we get a tool that can be used to solve a number of instances of the same problem. more...     13.00 - 14.00    LUNCH We break for lunch     14.00 - 17.30    MYSTERY CODING CONTEST Consider this the final exam for your two days of intense F# education. You will compete with your fellow track-mates for fun and prizes in a game of F# skill and wits which will be announced at the beginning of the session. While Rick will assist the Beginners' coding contest, Paulmichael will stand by the Advanced track. May the best F#'er win! more...	Track 2     09.30 - 13.00    F# AND CLOUD NUMERICS Roope Astala & Adam Jenkins: Does your model use too much memory to run on desktop, or simply take too long to run? Come and learn about Microsoft Codename “Cloud Numerics”, a mathematics and statistics library that lets .NET developers write algorithms that scale out from desktop to Windows Azure cloud. more...