GANG Meeting May 19, 2010

When

From: May 19, 2010 06:30 PM

To: May 19, 2010 08:30 PM

Publication date: February 08, 2010 12:00 AM

Where: Street: 1000 Town Center Drive; City: Southfield; State: Michigan; Country: USA

What

Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Title: Chris Marinos presents 'F# and Functional Programming for C# Developers'

By now, you've probably heard of F#, Microsoft's newest addition to the Visual Studio family. It might even be on your short list of technologies to learn. Unfortunately, approaching a functional language is often intimidating to object oriented developers. The good news is that it doesn't have to be that way.

In this presentation, I'll demonstrate some basic functional programming techniques from a C# developer's point of view. I'll start with C# code and build to F# to show you how a lot of the scary functional programming terminology that you may have encountered are really just code for things that you already do on a day to day basis. Finally, I'll explain how F# and functional programming improve your code and how you can incorporate them into your daily workflow.

Speaker: Chris Marinos

Chris Marinos is software consultant at SRT Solutions who is enthusiastic about functional programming and F#. He isn't big on bios, but encourages you to check out his blog at http://chrismarinos.com, follow him on twitter (@chrismarinos), or attend one of his talks around the Ann Arbor area.