Do you want to learn F# and Functional Programming? Well, you better start coding! Learning a new programming language is not easy, on top of reading a lot you need to practice even more. This workshop is designed to teach you some of the basics of F# and Functional Programming by combining theory (slides) and practice.

Topics:

• Bindings
• Functions
• Tuples
• Records
• High order functions
• Pipelining
• Partial application
• Composition
• Options
• Pattern matching
• Discriminated unions
• Units of measure
• Functional lists
• Object-oriented programming
• Type providers

Requirements:

1. Please bring a laptop with the pre-requisites already installed.
2. Clone this repo: Please bring a laptop with the pre-requisites already installed (see http://www.fsharpworkshop.com/#pre-requisites).
3. Open Visual Studio Code
4. Open the root folder (File -> Open)
5. Open the terminal (Terminal -> New Terminal)
6. Run “dotnet test Completed/Module1/Tests”
7. Double check it finishes without errors
8. Open the F# Interactive (View -> Command Palette -> FSI: Start)
9. Write “let a = 1;;” in the terminal window and press enter
10. Double check you see “val a : int = 1”