December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
11h 5m
English
In chapter 1, we looked at a number of business problems that people regularly face in the industry, and we discussed how F# can help you overcome those problems. But when professional software developers look at functional-first programming for the first time, they sometimes say that it looks difficult. In the first part of the book, we’re going to look at a couple of examples that demonstrate that nothing could be further from the truth.
Functional-first programming may appear unfamiliar at first, but the ideas behind it are simple. The following two chapters demonstrate this well. In chapter 2, Kit Eason explains how to implement one mathematical task that his team faced when building a life-expectancy modeling system. ...