Functional Programming

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F# Motives 1 - Reduce OOP Sprawl

I step aside from classic teaching about functional programming to consider F# as a general purpose language for .NET development. We start here with a classic OOP critique point concerning how data and functions are structured.

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Introduction to F#

First of the F# Intro Series. This article is about exam experiences, my motivation to bring this series, and what readers can expect. Also some important links to F# resources to start.

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Async Expressions and Mailbox in F#

Here is a recap on Async and Task expressions in F# These types of expressions allow us to use the .NET task system for concurrent and parallel programming.

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Recursive Functions in F# 2 - Two Dimensions

For many types of problems, two or more for-loops are nested to iterate over multiple dimensions. In this article, we look at how to do this recursively in F#.

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Recap on F# Type System

Here is a quick recap on the F# type system focused on data types. This covers tuples, unions and records.

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Recursive Functions in F# 1 - Basic Iterations

In this article, I demonstrate how to build a basic iterator using different recursive function patterns. This is the first of a series of articles for learning functional programming in F#.