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Book review: F# for Scientists

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:07:25 GMT

Latest review of the most highly rated book on Amazon.

Luca Bolognese on the new F# language from Microsoft

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:04:35 GMT

Microsoft's Luca Bolognese lectures about F# at PDC'08 by developing an F# program to scrape financial data over the web and visualize it interactively as he talks!

Functional programming and F#: Introduction

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:30:20 GMT

F# is the first new language in a long time that I've felt is worth taking the time to learn...

Interactive 3D function plots with F#

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:34:52 GMT

Granville Barnet looks at the new interactive 3D function plotting capabilities available from Microsoft's F# programming language that can even be used from within Visual Studio.

Visualization using F#

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:28:00 GMT

Granville Barnett discusses how F# can turn Visual Studio into a high-performance integrated technical computing environment with interactive 2D and 3D visualization.

F# Overview (I.) - Introduction | Blog | TomasP.Net

Thu, 22 May 2008 02:58:49 GMT

Great intro to f#

New F# Compiler Released

Sat, 03 May 2008 02:01:02 GMT

The new version of the F# Compiler was released May 1, 2008. Go download it now.

Is OOP really good for technical computing?

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:25:25 GMT

Object oriented programming (OOP) may be widespread but is it really the best way to attack problems in technical and scientific computing?

Adventures in F# Part 8

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:34:39 GMT

Part 8 of a pretty good series for learning F# by Matthew Podwysocki.

Why I Love F#: A Refactoring Tale

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:46:03 GMT

An amazing journey! The author takes fairly naive F# code and transforms it into elegant, beautiful code, introducing language features and concepts along the way.

Why I Love F#: Lists - The Basics

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:16:02 GMT

A wonderful explanation of lists in F#, how they operate, and how to use them.

Why I love F#: Option Types

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

Dustin Campbell goes over F# option types. Option types are a simple example of a discriminated (or tagged) union, although understanding that isn't necessary in order to use them. Simply put, an option type wraps a value with information indicating whether or not the value exists. For C# or VB programmers, it may be convenient to think of option types as a mutant cross between .NET 2.0 nullable types and the null object design pattern.

F# for Numerics beta release

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:42:10 GMT

Flying Frog have just announced the launch of their F# for numerics library (beta release).

F# Windows Forms Tutorial

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:46:29 GMT

A little guide on how to use F# to create a Windows Forms application

Project Euler in F# - Problem 5 » FSharp.it

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:32:52 GMT

The fifth problem of Project Euler asks to find the least common multiple of a set of numbers. This common exercise is analyzed by FSharp.it and solved using F#, then the solution is refined and the execution time reduced by twenty times.

Why I Love F#: Result Tuples

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

great and direct presentation on how to call C# Code from F#

F# with Project Euler: Freakin' awesome

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:14:23 GMT

In the past few weeks, as I've written on this here weblog, I've been trying my darndest to learn F#. So far, I've been reading Expert F# by Don Syme, Adam Granicz, and Antonio Cisternino; THE book on F# written by the inventor of F# (If you're at all interested, grab it). While I'm definitely not an expert on the matter yet, hopefully this will help someone, somewhere along the line. . . .

Sorting odd and even numbers in F# » FSharp.it

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:26:32 GMT

A small programming quiz on numeric sorting is solved with F#

Project Euler in F# - Problem 6

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:18:39 GMT

A new episode of the series of articles devoted to teaching F# programming by solving Project Euler problems. This time Problem 6 is discussed.

Adventures in F#

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:20:43 GMT

Matthew Podwysocki shares his experiences of learning F#. Useful links section.

Tuples in F#

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:51:22 GMT

Dustin explains why he likes F# in a whole series of posts. This one talks about tuples in F#.

Practical F# Parsing - Part 1, the Parse Buffer

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:16:03 GMT

A great first article on practical parsing with F#, demonstrating how to deal with a parse buffer providing the source of characters to be tokenized.

Improve Your C#! Borrow from F#...

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:46:26 GMT

Awsome awsome awsome way of showing off F# functionality. I know the examples are how you would implement the same thing in C#, but whats great is he's giving you a point of refrerence into F# if you understand only the C# code.

F# Resources

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:43:57 GMT

Listing of online resources for learning Microsoft's F# language.

I'm Really Digging F#

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:46:04 GMT

An article that shows the elegance, power and brevity of Microsoft's F# language.