David Gristwood grabs his camera, and heads down to the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge with Dave Brown, an architect at the Microsoft Technology Centre, to talk to Don Syme, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, about F# in part 1 of this video series. Don, who created F#, introduces the language and describes the best way to begin developing with F#.

Links:

• Microsoft F# Developer Center, http://www.fsharp.net

• Don Syme’s blog, https://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme /

Books

• “F# Survival Guide”, http ://www.ctocorner.com/fsharp/book /

• “Programming F#”, http ://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801359 /

• “Real World Functional Programming”, http://functional-programming.net /

• “Beginning F#”, http:// www.apress.com/book/view/1430223898

• “F# for Scientists”, http:// eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470242116.html

• “Visual F# 2010 for Technical Computing”, http:// www.ffconsultancy.com/products/fsharp_for_technical_computing/index.html