This course focuses on how to write "next generation" applications using F#'s more advanced features.

F#'s advanced concepts enable programming sophistication that would be significantly harder in conventional programming languages.

What you will learn

• How F# makes the following much easier:
  • Concurrency
  • Asynchronous Programming
  • Parallel Programming
• How to leverage language oriented programming techniques like:
  • The power of parsing, using F#'s version of lex and yacc.
  • The ability to do compilation, interpretation, and transformations via F#'s Quotation facility.
  • The power that can be gained from continuations.
• Performance tuning

1. Computation Expressions
   • Workflows
     • "monads"
2. Concurrency
   • Call backs
   • Using computation expressions
3. Parallel
   • Message Passing Interface
   • Shared memory parallelism
   • TPL
4. Quotations
   • Compilation
   • Transformation
   • Interpretation
     • You must write your own eval function
5. Reflection
   • Reflection is less necessary in F#.
   • When is reflection useful?
6. Parsing
   • Lex
   • Yacc
7. Performance Tuning
   • Determining when to use:
     • Functional programming
     • Parallel programming
     • Asynchronous programming
     • Mutation
   • Profiling
   • Timing