Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group Meeting - Topic: F# and Functional Programming

Date
19-20 May 2010 (Add to calendar) GMT
Venue
1000 Town Center Drive , Suite 1930, US
Cost
Free

Topic: F# and Functional Programming

By now, you've probably heard of F#, Microsoft's newest addition to the Visual Studio family. It might even be on your short list of technologies to learn. Unfortunately, approaching a functional language is often intimidating to object oriented developers. The good news is that it doesn't have to be that way. In this presentation, I'll demonstrate some basic functional programming techniques from a C# developer's point of view. I'll start with C# code and build to F# to show you how a lot of the scary functional programming terminology that you may have encountered are really just code for things that you already do on a day to day basis. Finally, I'll explain how F# and functional programming improve your code and how you can incorporate them into your daily workflow.

Speaker: Chris Marinos

Chris Marinos is software consultant at SRT Solutions who is enthusiastic about functional programming and F#. He isn't big on bios, but encourages you to check out his blog, follow him on Twitter, or attend one of his talks around the Ann Arbor area. Blog: http://chrismarinos.com Twitter: @chrismarinos

About GANG

The Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group (GANG) has been actively serving the .NET Developer community in Southeast Michigan since 2001. We are a community of developers interested and active in the development of software implementing the Microsoft .NET framework and associated environment. Topics of discussion will focus on .NET development and related subjects. We are dedicated to advancing the knowledge and understanding of the Microsoft .NET development tools and methods in the development community. As a volunteer-driven, developer-focused organization our motto is "For Developers, By Developers".

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