• Create real world applications in F#
• Use functional programming techniques more effectively
• See how F# allows you to write code that is more testable
• Learn how F# enables you to use meta-programming and language oriented programming
• Find out about commonly used F# open source libraries

Day 1: Getting to Know F#

• The basic: let bindings, values and functions
• Type: tuples and the function type
• Immutable collections: List, Sets and Maps
• Pattern matching
• Record and unions
• A little on testing in F#
• My first F# app: a web crawler
• Some collective intelligence algorithms in F#
• Anatomy of an F# application

• Parallel Programming with the Parallel Task library
• Asynchronous programming with F# workflows
• Agents and the actor model
• Domain specific languages
• Advanced testing using FsCheck and NaturalSpec
• Meta programming with F# quotations
• Accelerator, DirectCompute and executing code on the GPU