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F sharp is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language which empowers users and organizations to tackle complex computing problems with simple, maintainable and robust code. F sharp 4.0 achieves unrivaled levels of programmer productivity and program clarity across multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, Android, OSX and iOS as well as HTML5 and GPUs.

Expert F sharp 4.0 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.

Expert F sharp 4.0 is:
- A comprehensive guide to the latest version of F sharp by the inventor of the language
- A treasury of F sharp techniques for practical problem-solving
- An in-depth case book of how F sharp applications and of F sharp 4.0 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 4.0 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 F sharp 4.0 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. Data Analytics, Numeric Programming, and Charting

11. Reactive, Asynchronous, and Parallel Programming

12. Symbolic Programming with Structured Data

13. Integrating External Data and Services

14. Building HTML5 Web Applications with WebSharper

15. Building Mobile Applications with WebSharper and Xamarin

16. Visualization and Graphical User Interfaces

17. Language-Oriented Programming: Advanced Techniques

18. Tools, Libraries and Interoperating with Other Languages

19. Packaging, Debugging and Testing F sharp Code

20. Designing F sharp Libraries

21. Appendix

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Don Syme 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.

Adam Granicz is the chief executive officer of IntelliFactory, the leading provider of F# training, development and consulting services, and technologies that enable rapid functional, reactive web development. He has over eight years of experience applying F# in commercial projects, and works on WebSharper, IntelliFactory´s web development platform that offers unrivaled productivity, a uniform programming model based on F#, and the fastest way to develop robust, client-based rich Internet and mobile applications. Adam is an active F# evangelist, a regular F# author and speaker at development conferences and workshops, and serves on the steering committee of the Commercial Users of Functional Programming (CUFP) Workshop, representing the F# segment.

Antonio Cisternino is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa. His primary research is on scientific computing, meta-programming and domain-specific languages on virtual-machine-based execution environments. He has been active in the .NET community since 2001 and developed VSLab, a Microsoft Visual Studio add-in to support MATLAB-like programming in F# and Visual Studio. He is also author of annotated C#, an extension of C#, and Robotics4.NET, a framework for programming robots with Microsoft .NET. Cisternino holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pisa.

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