San Francisco, CA, March 6, 2014—With the unofficial slogan "solving complex problems with simple code," the F# programming language is making functional programming accessible to legions of developers.

The Book of F# is a comprehensive guide to F# that lets readers familiar with languages like Java or C# join a community of developers who are already using F# to solve their tricky programming problems. Regardless of the project or platform, F# can help developers craft leaner, smarter, and more correct code thanks to features like F#'s powerful type system.

In The Book of F#, author Dave Fancher brings 10 years of .NET development and his experience as a Microsoft MVP to the table. Readers will learn how to:

• Exploit F#'s functional nature using currying, partial application, and delegation
• Streamline type creation and safety with record types and discriminated unions
• Use collection types and modules to handle data sets more effectively
• Use pattern matching to decompose complex types and branch code within a single expression
• Make software more responsive with parallel programming and asynchronous workflows
• Harness object orientation to develop rich frameworks and interact with code written in other .NET languages
• Use query expressions and type providers to access and manipulate data sets from disparate sources

The Book of F# promises to help coders everywhere make sense of this sometimes-tricky language so that they can break free of the bonds of traditional object-oriented programming.