F# Hands-On: Of Turtles and Discriminated Unions
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Logo is an educational programming language, remembered mainly today for its use of "turtle graphics", in which commands for movement and drawing produced line graphics either on screen or with a small robot called a "turtle".
In this session, we'll see how we can use F# discriminated unions (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming/Discriminated_Unions) to create a mini-turtle language, and create some nifty SVG graphics.
This session will be organized as a dojo / interactive workshop. Come over, write some code together, and learn yourself some F# for great good! No prior experience required, F# beginners are very welcome - it will be a great opportunity to see F# in action, learn together, and see why F# is awesome.
To get the most from the session, please try and bring a laptop along with F# installed (ideally either MonoDevelop or Visual Studio Web Express/Full Edition). Check out fsharp.org (http://fsharp.org/) for instructions on how to get F# ready on your machine.