From the eBook - Fourth edition.
At a Glance; Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewers; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Genesis of F#; About This Book; Who This Book Is For; Chapter 2: Your First F# Program: Getting Started with F#; Creating Your First F# Program; Documenting Code ; Using let; Understanding Types ; Calling Functions ; Lightweight Syntax ; Understanding Scope ; Using Data Structures ; Using Properties and the Dot-Notation ; Using Tuples ; Using Imperative Code ; Using Object-Oriented Libraries from F#; Using open to Access Namespaces and Modules
Introducing Function Values Using Function Values; Computing with Collection Functions ; Using Fluent Notation on Collections; Composing Functions with >>; Building Functions with Partial Application ; Using Local Functions ; Iterating with Functions; Abstracting Control with Functions; Using Object Methods as First-Class Functions; Some Common Uses of Function Values; Summary; Chapter 4: Introducing Imperative Programming; About Functional and Imperative Programming; Imperative Looping and Iterating; Simple for Loops ; Simple While Loops ; More Iteration Loops over Sequences
Using Mutable Records Avoiding Aliasing ; Using Mutable let Bindings ; Hiding Mutable Data ; Working with Arrays ; Generating and Slicing Arrays; Two-Dimensional Arrays ; Introducing the Imperative .NET Collections ; Using Resizable Arrays ; Using Dictionaries ; Using Dictionary's TryGetValue ; Using Dictionaries with Compound Keys ; Some Other Mutable Data Structures ; Exceptions and Controlling Them; Catching Exceptions ; Using try . . . finally; Defining New Exception Types ; Having an Effect: Basic I/O; .NET I/O via Streams ; Some Other I/O-Related Types
Using System. Console Combining Functional and Imperative Efficient Precomputation and Caching ; Precomputation and Partial Application ; Precomputation and Objects ; Memoizing Computations; Lazy Values ; Other Variations on Caching and Memoization ; Mutable Reference Cells ; Combining Functional and Imperative: Functional Programming with Side Effects; Consider Replacing Mutable Locals and Loops with Recursion ; Separating Pure Computation from Side-Effecting Computations ; Separating Mutable Data Structures ; Not All Side Effects Are Equal
