09:00-09:30    REGISTRATION, BREAKFAST & WELCOME

Registration and a short welcome to the Progressive F# Tutorials 2012 by Phil Trelford.

09:30-10:30    PRACTICAL FUNCTIONAL-FIRST PROGRAMMING W

In this Practical Functional-first Programming with F# tutorial, Don Syme introduces you to the practical application of F#/.NET programming to solve real-world analytical programming problems. more...

10:30 - 11.00    TEA, COFFEE, & REFRESHMENTS

The Progressive F# Tutorials break for tea, coffee and refreshments.

11.00 - 12.30    PROGRAMMING WITH THE STARS!

This is a hands-on session, designed to help you shift into the functional mindset. Many programming articles set out a problem and give a completed solution, but leave out the steps in the middle. In this session our programming stars will be given a set of problems to solve, and they will describe the steps that they go through to get to a functional solution, in both C# and F#. more...

12:30 - 13.30    TEA, COFFEE, & REFRESHMENTS

The Progressive F# Tutorials break for Lunch.

13.30 - 17.00    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. If you're an experienced F# developer, you'll sharpen your skills by solving problems and helping others in their journey towards F# masteryTutorials

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17.00 - 17.30    PROGFSHARP PIZZA & DRINKS

Get yourself a slice of pizza and drink, whilst we set up for the Progressive F# ParkBench Panel discussion. Tweet your questions and thoughts #progfsharp

17.30-18:30    EXPERT PANEL DISCUSSION

Whilst enjoying some pizza & drinks, we'll hold a ParkBench Panel discussion, to discuss ideas, stuff we learned during the morning and stuff we would like to hear more about. You will not only be able to ask your questions, but are also actively encouraged to join the panel to express your opinion and share your experience! Tweet your questions & topics to #progfsharp more...

18.30 - late    TO THE PUB!

Onwards! To our local pub!

13.30 - 17.00    PROCESSING CONCURRENT TIME-SERIES DATA

Tomas Petricek & Simon Cousins: Computer systems in energy, finance or cloud computing need to process time-series data that are produced concurrently by a number of data sources. In this talk, you’ll learn how to process and analyse such data in F# using agents. more...

09:00 - 09:30    BREAKFAST

Join us for breakfast for day two of the Progressive F# Tutorials.

09.30 - 12.30    ACCELERATE YOUR TDD CYCLE – CODING DOJO

Steffen Forkman: Test-Driven Development can give you a lot of benefits for your code but also needs a lot of practice. Come to this session and learn how to master TDD with F#, NaturalSpec and NCrunch.

NaturalSpec is a F# TDD framework which allows to express tests in a very intuitive way and NCrunch helps to execute these tests continuously on very key stroke. This gives a very fast feedback loop and helps to speed up your TDD coding. more...

12.30 - 13.30    LUNCH

We break for Lunch!

13.30 - 17:00    WEB PROGRAMMING

James Freiwirth: In this practical tutorial we’ll connect to rich data sources using F# 3.0’s Type Providers, and then move on to create a fully functional web site. Please bring a laptop with Visual Studio 2012 full edition or Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web (free). more...

17.00     CLOSING NOTES

The Progressive F# Tutorials closing notes! more...

09.30 - 12.30    MAKE MUSIC IN THE KEY OF F#

Robert Pickering: In this tutorial you will work with Undertone to create music programmatically in F#. You will first learn how to create and visualise individual notes, learning how different shape waves make different sounds and how sound effects like overdrive can be simulated. You’ll then go on to see how notes can be sequenced to make tunes and get the chance to make up their own riffs. Finally, you will see how you can load existing music files in most formats and use the Undertone tools set to sample and edit these sound files to make new and interesting tunes. more...

13.30 - 17:00    F# IN THE CLOUD

George Stavroulakis & Gian Ntzik: Cloud computing has brought immense computational power to the masses without any upfront investment. However, harnessing this power is not for the faint at heart since it can be really challenging, especially when lacking the appropriate tools. This talk will focus on how F# can be used to perform computations in a cloud environment, using distributed actors, Azure Hadoop and the cool F# newcomer, {m}brace. This will be a hands-on approach so bring your laptop with you! more...