Name: Introduction to F#: The Turtle Tutorial
Start: 2018-10-10T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-10-10T21:00:00+01:00
Location: JUST EAT

Workshop for those who's like to learn F# and functional languages in general, aimed at attendees who have a general knowledge of object-oriented languages like C#, Java, Python, JavaScript etc.

The workshop consists of 2 segments:

1 - Presentation explaining the fundamental concepts & advantages of F#
2 - Interactive workshop where we will each build a Logo Turtle from scratch

Please bring along a laptop if you can; if you haven't got one available we will happily pair you up with other attendees or the presenters to work through the exercise

As always beer and pizza will be provided.

--- Laptop Setup Instructions ---

You will need the .NET Core 2.1 SDK installed locally.

If you don't already have this installed click "Download .NET Core SDK" here: https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core

You'll also need Visual Studio Code, Ionide and the Visual F# Tools.

Go here: http://fsharp.org/use/windows/ and follow "Options 2: Install Visual Studio Code", then "Option 4: Install the Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools".

If you run into any troubles please feel free to contact us prior to the exercise. We will also set some time aside to get everyone up & running prior to starting on the day.

--- Resources ---

The exercise code can be found here: https://github.com/FSharpBristol/FSharpTurtleTutorial

The slides can be found here: https://fsharpbristol.github.io/FSharpBristol/presentations/FSharpTurtleTutorial#/

Corwin Pierce-Butler

Luke Merrett

Stuart Lang

F# |> Bristol

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.NET

Software Development

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Functional Programming

Computer Programming

F# Programming

FSharp

OCaml Programming

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