Free One Day F# Workshop
F# is now one of the managed languages that comes with Visual Studio. If you haven’t had the chance to look into F# yet then this free workshop, with a key note from Don Syme (creator of F#) could an excellent introduction. It’s being run by Microsoft Research and the University of Pisa, and the agenda includes:
| Strongly Typed Programming for the Information-Rich World | Don Syme (Microsoft Research) |
| Why F# for Finance? | Diego Colombo (CitiGroup) |
| F# for Computer Science | Nigel Horspool (University of Victoria) |
| F# for science and engineering | Antonio Cisternino (University of Pisa) |
| Developing F# applications with Visual Studio 11 | |
| Try F# 3.0 – programming in the browser | Christophe Poulain (Microsoft Research) |
| Parallel programming with F# | Chris Marinos (SRT Solutions) |
| Research Experiments with F# | Michael Hansen and Hans Rischel (Technical University of Denmark) |
| Panel session – Perspectives on F# adoption | Kenji Takeda (Chair, Microsoft Research) |
This is all taking place on the 28th June in Pisa, Italy, with an optional introduction to F# on the 27th June, also free.
Go here to register and get more information.
If you’re not sure if you should be looking at F#, this is an interesting article on why you might
Cheers,
Giles