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Expert F sharp 3.0 is about practical programming in a beautiful language that puts the power and elegance of data-rich functional programming into the hands of professional developers. In combination with .NET, F sharp achieves unrivaled levels of programmer productivity and program clarity.
Expert F sharp 3.0 is:
A comprehensive guide to F sharp by the inventor of F sharp
A treasury of F sharp techniques for practical problem-solving
An in-depth case book of how F sharp applications and of F sharp 3.0 concepts, syntax, and features
F sharp isn´t just another functional programming language. It´s a general-purpose language ideal for solving real-world development problems. F sharp seamlessly integrates functional, imperative, object-oriented and query programming styles so you can flexibly and elegantly solve any programming problem. F sharp 3.0 combines this with the seamless data-integration capabilities of F sharp Information-Rich Programming. Whatever your background, you´ll find that F sharp is easy to learn, fun to use, and extraordinarily powerful. F sharp will change the way you think about - and go about - programming.
Written by F sharp´s inventor and two major F sharp community members, Expert sharp 3.0 is a comprehensive and in-depth guide to the language and its use. Designed to help others become experts, the book quickly yet carefully describes the paradigms supported by F sharp language, and then shows how to use F sharp elegantly for a practical web, data, parallel and analytical programming tasks.
The world´s experts in F sharp show you how to program in F sharp the way they do!

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1. Introduction
2. Your First F sharp Program - Getting Started With F sharp
3. Introducing Functional Programming
4. Introducing Imperative Programming
5. Understanding Types in Functional Programming
6. Programming with Objects
7. Encapsulating and Organizing Your Code
8. Working with Textual Data
9. Working with Sequences and Structured Data
10. Numeric Programming and Charting
11. Reactive, Asynchronous, and Parallel Programming
12. Symbolic Programming with Structured Data
13. Integrating External Data and Services
14. Building Smart Web Applications
15. Building Mobile Web Applications
16. Visualization and Graphical User Interfaces
17. Language-Oriented Programming: Advanced Techniques
18. Libraries and Interoperating with Other Languages
19. Packaging, Debugging and Testing F sharp Code
20. Designing F sharp Libraries

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strongDon Syme/strong is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and the main designer of F#. Since joining Microsoft Research in 1998, he has been a seminal contributor to a wide variety of leading-edge projects, including generics in C# and the .NET Common Language Runtime, F# itself, F# asynchronous programming and units of measure in F#. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in 1999.

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