F# Training Courses in Hong Kong

In this instructor-led, live training in Hong Kong, participants will learn functional programming as they step through the creation of a series of sample applications and utilities.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand the principles of functional programming.
- Write elegant, maintainable code for solving complex computing problems.
- Use F# with Javascript and C# to create asynchronous web applications.

Data science is the application of statistical analysis, machine learning, data visualization and programming for the purpose of understanding and interpreting real-world data. F# is a well suited programming language for data science as it combines efficient execution, REPL-scripting, powerful libraries and scalable data integration.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use F# to solve a series of real-world data science problems.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Use F#'s integrated data science packages
- Use F# to interoperate with other languages and platforms, including Excel, R, Matlab, and Python
- Use the Deedle package to solve time series problems
- Carry out advanced analysis with minimal lines of production-quality code
- Understand how functional programming is a natural fit for scientific and big data computations
- Access and visualize data with F#
- Apply F# for machine learning

Explore solutions for problems in domains such as business intelligence and social gaming

Audience

- Developers
- Data scientists

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This course introduces the tools and techniques needed to write F# based unit tests. A special emphasis is placed on test driven development (TDD). Functional TDD is a testing approach that uses functional programming to unit test an application before developing it. Functional programming (as opposed to imperative, state-transition-style programming) in a language such as F# lends itself well to TDD because smaller, well-targeted tests can be written in isolation.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use F# to write unit tests that are direct and easy to understand.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Build a complete system out of small, isolated functions
- Express test cases as properties instead of examples
- Write test code without the need for mocks
- Reduce the need to control and check for side effects
- Use libraries such as NaturalSpec, FsCheck, FsTest, FsUnit and Unquote to facilitate test cases creation
- Use F# to overcome some of the problems associated with mainstream Test-driven Development (TDD)

Audience

- Test engineers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Property Based Testing is an automated testing technique that allows you to zero in on the expected behavior of a system by describing its properties, then using randomly generated test data to execute tests.

"Describe the arguments, describe the result, have the computer try to prove your code wrong!"

Some of the topics covered in this instructor-led, live training include:

- How to write and run tests with F#
- The FsCheck Property Based Testing framework
- Using Diamond Kata to implement TDD
- Sharpening your code design skills

Audience

- Automation test engineers
- Developers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice