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Functional Programming eXchange
The Functional Programming eXchange was held at Skills Matter on March 18th, featuring talks by Functional Programming experts and community. Topics inlcuded Managing parallelism, F# in the Enterprise, BlazeHTML, the Lift Web Framework, and and talks from experts like Simoun Cousins, Simon Peyton Jones, David Pollak, Miles Sabine, and Adam Granicz. You can find the SkillsCast videos (including footage, code and slides) of all the talks
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Robert Pickering's Beginning F# Workshop
Robert Pickering's Beginning F# Workshop is a two day course that will teach you all about F#, an exciting new language that has evolved from a Microsoft Research project into a first class citizen of Visual Studio 2010. You will discover how F# can be used to express programs concisely and efficiently; you’ll also learn how to start having fun with this enormously productive language. Find out more
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Martin Odersky's An exploration of Scala Workshop
Martin Odersky's two day Scala workshop will introduce you to functional programming and advanced object-oriented techniques using the Scala programming language. Delivered by Iulian Dragos, key member of Martin Odersky’s EPFL's Scala team, Martin will make a special guest appearance during the course by video conference. This is your chance to ask the creator of Scala himself any related questions. .
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David Pollak's Lift Basics Workshop
This Lift Basics course by David Pollak (creator of Lift) introduces Scala and Java developers to the Lift Web Framework. You will learn how to create dynamic, interactive, secure web sites using Lift. This Lift course covers creating a basic Lift project, dynamic content with Snippets, site navigation and access control via SiteMap, forms including multi-page Wizards, and creating real-time, scalable sites with Lift's Comet support. Wether you are a Scala newbie or an intermediate Java developer, David's practical hands-on style will help you understand Lift's Java and Scala API's. Upon completion of this Lift course, you will be able to create secure, dynamic Lift based sites. Find out more
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