Earlier this year (late February to be exact) my life took an interesting turn: a publisher approached me about writing an F# book. Writing a book had been something that I’d thought of doing for some time but it was never something I gave any serious consideration. After some discussion with my wife, mostly about the time commitment, I decided to go ahead with the project. Since then, a mix of writing, reviewing, revising, and the variety of other activities that go along with getting a book on the shelves have consumed most of my nights and weekends.

After months of work, I’m very excited to announce that The Book of F#: Breaking Free with Managed Functional Programming will be published by No Starch Press! The book is scheduled for release on March 22, 2014 but No Starch is accepting pre-orders now! By pre-ordering from No Starch with the coupon code PREORDER, you can save 30% off the cover price of $44.95.

If you’re an experienced .NET developer that would like to break free from the chains of C# and Visual Basic or someone that’s just curious about the language, this book is for you. The Book of F# will introduce you to the basics of the language and walk you through features such as currying, partial application, pattern matching, discriminated unions, record types, units of measure, type providers, and a plethora of other concepts. Throughout the book you’ll see examples of how F#’s terse syntax and functional-first nature will help you be more productive and produce code that’s more predictable than that of many modern languages.

F# has been getting a lot of attention lately. If you’re even remotely curious as to why, I hope you’ll consider adding this book to your collection.