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Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

I’d like to announce that for the past few months I’ve been secretly working on a book for O’Reilly titled Programming F#. My aim is to provide the one-stop-shop for learning the breadth of the F# language.

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A special thanks goes out to Nate LaMartina, a friend of mine at Mythic Entertainment for putting together the book cover. I haven’t actually discussed the animal on the cover yet, but I’m sure the folks at O’Reilly media would love a flesh-eating Squig.

Published Sunday, October 19, 2008 12:45 PM by ChrSmith

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Monday, October 20, 2008 12:13 AM by MichaelGG

# re: Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

Sweet :). I think some lesser animal should be getting trampled or gored... My favourite O'Reilly cover is still "Oh No! A Horrid Little Monkey..." (One here: http://www.something-random.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/ohno.jpg)

One question though, F# 1.0? Was that on purpose so you could limit the scope of what to cover?

Monday, October 20, 2008 4:10 PM by Chris Smith

# re: Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

The "F# 1.0" was just filler text, I'll actually try to cover a little bit more than that such as how to deploy applications and running F# on Mono.

Thanks!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:02 PM by Liam

# re: Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

Really glad to see this. Your blogs always have a nice clear application which scaled will make interesting chapters.

Another question though, will it be Learning F# (book cover) or Programming F#, since the contents have a different target audience.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:49 PM by Chris Smith

# re: Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

Despite the image, the title will be "Programming F#". So it will assume the reader has more some programming experience and some familiarity with C#.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:35 PM by Chance Coble

# re: Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

It's great to see another title on F# in the works Chris.  Thanks!  Don't hesitate to ping me for any review needs - I look forward to the book taking its place on my shelf.

Saturday, October 25, 2008 5:45 AM by Julian Moeller

# re: Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

Worth buying just because of the cover :D

Saturday, October 25, 2008 1:25 PM by Rupert Bates

# re: Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

Hi, slightly off topic but will you or anyone else from the F# team be at Tech Ed Barcelona this year? Great blog, keep up the good work.

Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:22 PM by Jerry S.

# re: Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

Chris, how hard is it today to use F# for desktop applications? Is the subject touched at all within your book?

Thanks.

Monday, October 27, 2008 1:54 AM by Carsten K.

# re: Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

Hi,

will there be excerises?

Some will state that you don't need any because as a good programmer you know how to do you stuff - but ever tried learning lisp or prolog without good excersies?

And F# will be even worse because you can fall back to imperative programming ....

Monday, November 03, 2008 9:58 PM by Anders Cui

# re: Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

Great, i am looking forward to it!

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