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Expert F# 4.0 4th ed. Edition

by Don Syme (Author), Adam Granicz (Author), Antonio Cisternino (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
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Learn from F#'s inventor to become an expert in the latest version of this powerful programming language so you can seamlessly integrate functional, imperative, object-oriented, and query programming style flexibly and elegantly to solve any programming problem. Expert F# 4.0 will help you achieve unrivaled levels of programmer productivity and program clarity across multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, Android, OSX, and iOS as well as HTML5 and GPUs.

F# 4.0 is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language which empowers users and organizations to tackle complex computing problems with simple, maintainable, and robust code.

Expert F# 4.0 is:

  • A comprehensive guide to the latest version of F# by the inventor of the language
  • A treasury of F# techniques for practical problem-solving
  • An in-depth case book of F# applications and F# 4.0 concepts, syntax, and features

Written by F#'s inventor and two major F# community members, Expert F# 4.0 is a comprehensive and in-depth guide to the language and its use. Designed to help others become experts, the book quickly yet carefully describes the paradigms supported by F# language, and then shows how to use F# elegantly for a practical web, data, parallel and analytical programming tasks.

The world's experts in F# show you how to program in F# the way they do!



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  1. ISBN-10
    1484207416
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1484207413
  3. Edition
    4th ed.
  4. Publisher
    Apress
  5. Publication date
    December 21, 2015
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.01 x 1.38 x 10 inches
  8. Print length
    609 pages
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Learn from F#'s inventor to become an expert in the latest version of this powerful programming language so you can seamlessly integrate functional, imperative, object-oriented, and query programming style flexibly and elegantly to solve any programming problem. Expert F# 4.0 will help you achieve unrivaled levels of programmer productivity and program clarity across multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, Android, OSX, and iOS as well as HTML5 and GPUs.

F# 4.0 is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language which empowers users and organizations to tackle complex computing problems with simple, maintainable, and robust code.

Expert F# 4.0 is:

  • A comprehensive guide to the latest version of F# by the inventor of the language
  • A treasury of F# techniques for practical problem-solving
  • An in-depth case book of F# applications and F# 4.0 concepts, syntax, and features

Written by F#'s inventor and two major F# community members, Expert F# 4.0 is a comprehensive and in-depth guide to the language and its use. Designed to help others become experts, the book quickly yet carefully describes the paradigms supported by F# language, and then shows how to use F# elegantly for a practical web, data, parallel and analytical programming tasks.

The world's experts in F# show you how to program in F# the way they do!



About the Author

Don Syme is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and the main designer of F#. Since joining Microsoft Research in 1998, he has been a seminal contributor to a wide variety of leading-edge projects, including generics in C# and the .NET Common Language Runtime, F# itself, F# asynchronous programming, and units of measure in F#. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in 1999.

Adam Granicz is the chief executive officer of IntelliFactory, the leading provider of F# training, development and consulting services, and technologies that enable rapid functional, reactive web development. He has over eight years of experience applying F# in commercial projects, and works on WebSharper, IntelliFactory’s web development platform that offers unrivaled productivity, a uniform programming model based on F#, and the fastest way to develop robust, client-based rich Internet and mobile applications. Adam is an active F# evangelist, a regular F# author and speaker at development conferences and workshops, and serves on the steering committee of the Commercial Users of Functional Programming (CUFP) Workshop, representing the F# segment.

Antonio Cisternino is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa. His primary research is on scientific computing, meta-programming and domain-specific languages on virtual-machine-based execution environments. He has been active in the .NET community since 2001 and developed VSLab, a Microsoft Visual Studio add-in to support MATLAB-like programming in F# and Visual Studio. He is also author of annotated C#, an extension of C#, and Robotics4.NET, a framework for programming robots with Microsoft .NET. Cisternino holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pisa.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 4th ed. edition (December 21, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 609 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1484207416
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1484207413
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.01 x 1.38 x 10 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 29 ratings

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Scott Nimrod
5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference book
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2016
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This book is a great reference book.
The book is easy to read.
Some code examples may appear advanced.

I highly recommend this book.
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Rohit Sharma
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely the best book out there.
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2016
Absolutely love the book and highly recommend it. Though I know haskell and bit of clojure, I think even intermediate OO/fn devs would find the book as a good start to F# - the book is not for experts, but it will get you there. I find the book very easy to read, starts of with very simple examples right from the beginning, the examples are short and succinct (as F# is), but enough to give you a taste of core fundamentals one after the other. Do not read and skim through the book, but exercise the examples yourself and experiment as you go along.

I'd also recommend Scott's excellent guide [...] and Real World Functional Programming book by Tomas and John. Mark Seeman has excellent video on Pluralsight

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T. D. Telford II
4.0 out of 5 stars I am giving the book 1 star due to the ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2016
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Update: The code is now available at the apress site, so giving the book 4 stars.

I am giving the book 1 star due to the following:
1. The back cover says "source code online". It is not available on the Apress or Springer sites.
2. I called the support number. After 5 minutes of waiting (with messages that "your call is important to us") I receive a message "Goodby" and was disconnected. I tried a second time with the same results.

The printed book itself gets at least 4 stars, but without the source code the value is very diminished and I am put off the by support experience.
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William
1.0 out of 5 stars The layout for the kindle edition is horrible. The code examples are all screwed up
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2020
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The alignment of the code samples is completed messed up. This makes it nearly impossible to read given F# code has indentation significance. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS Kindle version. You will regret it. Amazon should not allow this to be purchased until it is fixed.

I have the print version of the book. It is a great book. Do not buy this Kindle version!
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Maciej Pilichowski
3.0 out of 5 stars Book sponsored by horizontal lines
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2016
At first glance the format of the book looks as usual as it can be, but when you take the book in your hand, you notice something is off. I was curious and I put this book against the others -- yep, the book is taller and narrower than "regular" book. I don't know why such change, but it makes reading harder because the inner margins are smaller, and around first 100 pages and last 100 pages you have to read in L position (of the book) -- i.e. you cannot put it flat (unless you don't mind cracking the binding).

While I am at technical issues -- there is no syntax highlighting of the code (only the output is put in italics), and publisher is a huge fan of horizontal lines -- small snippet, comment, output, you name it, almost every page is slashed by horizontal lines. I didn't even realize how tiresome it is until I opened the next book I wanted to read ( Real World OCaml: Functional programming for the masses  by O'Reilly), it is from another publisher, it does not use any lines and the first thought that comes to mind is -- peace. My eyes can finally rest.

Minor complain is quality of the typesetting, decades after inventing LaTeX, we still have to have text, where a word followed with colon looks like a squashed fly (example p.22). Oh, well... who cares about quality?

Ok, the content -- it is pretty thorough and complete. Please note the level of this book though, it is focused on already experienced devs ("the gloves are off" -- just as an example, pipe operator "|>" is used from the beginning, but explained on p.46). The distinction between the language features and libraries (or "F# applied") is clear, there is no jumping back and forth. I really wish more of the language, and less of the libraries. In my experience, libraries come and go, but the language stays. This is my personal bias (and bad luck) that the feature I was hoping to read the most takes just a few pages -- measure units. Here and in few other places authors decided to keep the text short and advise the reader to read more on the web. I really hate that notion of buying a book just to read I can use web browser to read more.

There are other interesting topics covered like active patterns, quotations, reactive programming, or tail recursion optimization. But again, I feel the coverage of those topics are too short (while for example Eto Forms take entire chapter, 50 pages), it is a wrong balance in my opinion.

I cannot even explain why I feel this way, but I simply feel it -- before reading "Expert F# 4.0" I finished reading  Groovy in Action . I could say the latter is a journey guided by passionate people, this book on the other hand is written like it was a duty. There is no question about the knowledge, or anything like that, but there is no this spark of charm. Pity.

Amazon says 3 out of 5 is "OK", and I think it is fair for this book. It is a reliable source of information, no doubt, but "I like it" (4 of 5), no, especially when you compare it to other books. On the other hand -- would I buy it again if I have my money back, yes -- without any regret of spending money, but also without any real choice, because there is no competition when it comes to F# 4.0 books. We will see if there will be some worthy contender for F# 5.0...
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Piers Williams
3.0 out of 5 stars A bit preachy
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016
Have to say I gave up after the first few chapters and went and read 'Real World Functional Programming' by Petricek & Skeet. It's a bit old now, but I just found the pacing and tone to be much better. Expert F# is more recent, and written by the language author, but unfortunately it's one of those programming books that goes through every syntactical nuance very slowly before you ever get anywhere, plus I constantly felt like Don was doing a sales pitch at me. Is he just preaching to the choir? I will have to try it again sometime and find out.
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Thomas B
1.0 out of 5 stars The kindle version isn't even readable
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2019
The kindle version of this book as completely unformatted code sections and it doesn't match the book in any way. The preview is not what's in the kindle version. It's the single worst looking programming e-book that I've ever ready.
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tak
5.0 out of 5 stars 著者のDon SymeはF#の設計者
Reviewed in Japan on November 7, 2017
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Amazon上では同じ本が二つの商品として登録されているが、ASIN: B01JC6QOWUの方は、Kindle版ではソースコードの整形がおかしく読みにくい(スペースや行間ななぜか非常に広く、途中改行が多い)。
Kindle版は、ASIN: B0171AK8F8の方を買うことをお勧めする。

Beginning F#も読んだが、こちらのほうが全体的な内容はわかりやすいと感じた。ただ、F#を全く知らない状態では本書は少しわかりにくいかもしれない。その場合はBeginning F#をまず読むと良いと思う。

著者のDon SymeはMicrosoft Researchに属するF#の設計者のようだ。そういう点でも原典という感じがする。初歩的と言える説明はない。

Capter 16にはComputation Expressionsの説明もありGood。Beginning F#にはseqやasyncといった組み込みのWorkflowの説明しかなかった。
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M. Mortimer
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on a fantastic langauge
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2016
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Excellent book on a fantastic langauge.

Although a little dry, it serves it's purpose very well. My background in programming is light but I found this book highly accessible.
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Massimo Decia
5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo libro di programmazione
Reviewed in Italy on April 20, 2016
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Avevo sfogliato una precedente versione dello stesso libro che mi era piaciuto ma che non mi aveva completamente soddisfatto.
In una conferenza trovata su Channell 9 tenuta da Luca Bolognese aveva consigliato questo libro come un ottimo libro non solo su
f# ma in generale su computer science. Devo dire che sono completamente d'accordo con lui...Inoltre insegna anche molto di f# :-)

Da leggere
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José da Conceição
5.0 out of 5 stars The book is unique in this subject that I've know ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 28, 2016
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The book is unique in this subject that I've know then the has many utility. I'm wait for this book programmed to arrive in October 5
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