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Event: An Introduction to F#

Oliver Sturm joins us to provide an introduction to functional programming with F#, a string that's well worth having in your bow with the current trend of increasing processor cores/concurrency. Pizza and swag too of course!

If you are not a member of NxtGenUG, you are more than welcome to attend. We just ask you register on the site, to help us to plan numbers and refreshments. Once registered on the site, you can then register for this event from this page.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Region:	Manchester
Location:	Pennine House Pennine House Carrs Road Cheadle Manchester SK8 2BL
Time:	7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Event Breakdown

Oliver Sturm	Introduction to F#
Microsoft Research describes F# as "a scripted/functional/imperative/object-oriented programming language". Combining all those aspects in one language is certainly not an easy task, but they've done a good job of it. F# is interesting both as a language to actually consider for your projects and as a source of features that might make it into the mainstream .NET languages tomorrow. The session uses many examples to give you a good general overview of F#.