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Fun and Games in F#

by Richard Minerich on Mar 25, 2011

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sgoguen Good notes. I was thinking of using a George Orwell quote to really push the value of aesthetically beautiful code and abstraction without obfuscation points.

'But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.' 10 months ago Reply
Are you sure you want to Yes No

How many people here love F#?I’m not saying I have all the answers, but I’m saying we all need to think hard about how we present on F#
I started with talks along these lines and I’ve seen given by some of the most experienced speakers. They focus on engagement by being an entertaining speakerBut it’s more about personality than contentAnd does it inspire people to go home and play with F# on their own?Note: I’m not saying talking about features or comparing samples is bad, but it does not inspire anyone to go home and start an F# project!
This is a very difficult mind to break into The most intelligent people tend to be the most opinionated. Target people who you can help
Not social smarter, I mean like the kind of guy they golden handcuff and keep locked in a back office kind of smart.Some of the smartest people are the worst socially. Keep in mind, while the usefulness of lambdas, discriminated unions and tuples seemed obvious to you, it may not be to others.
Obviously I’d like to give and watch more talks oriented toward F# users, but a focus on that won’t grow our community.As things stand right now we have people who learned on their own and those who are interested but know very little.
Prizes, Pride and Vanity Show you’re passionateBuild interest through external motivators
First recursion, then tail recurisonEasy, but intentionally wrong
Just a month ago I was tasked with running a four hour tutorial at the Commercial Users of Functional Programming conference. I presented attendees with a simple API, a template example and a challenge to beat each other. I then and then simply gave them time to play. The end result was a room full of people who were motivated to be creative and solve problems independently. Little did they know that I had planned a path for them to follow just by having had written several of my own solutions previously.
Satisfy the new user and the advanced.
Tomas’s Community for F# TalkTalk about Logo
I challenge you to do better than I have. Find new and engaging ways to bring new users into the fold. Thank you

Fun and Games in F# — Presentation Transcript

Fun and Games in F#F# MVP2MVP
Richard Minerich
@Rickasaurus
RichardMinerich.com
Most Common F# Talks
The Feature-Fest
A technical description of F# feature by feature
Exhaustive Code Comparison
Showing sample after sample side by side with another language
How will this solve my
problem?
Shocking Announcements!
Most C# devs don’t even know how to use lambda expressions!
Big academic sounding words are scary to even seasoned devs!
Many devsstill think F# is a dynamic language!
If you already know F#, you are smarter than the vast majority of the devs you’ll meet.
Kinds of Audience Members
Beginner
(Some members of) F# User Groups
.NET User Groups
Code Camps
Existing F# User
(Some members of) F# User Groups
The Community For F#
Passion
Explain why you care
Safety from Types?
Abstraction without Obfuscation?
Aesthetically Beautiful Code?
Speak with enthusiasm
Why over how
Abstractions instead of details
Just try it!
Interest
Engage with
Competition
Entertainment
Gratification
How?
Ask Questions, Issue challenges
Make it Visually Interesting
Give Rewards
Example 1: Show Examples, Ask Questions, Give Prizes
Function
> letrecrecFun n =
if(n < 3) then 1 elserecFun (n - 1) + recFun (n - 2);;
valrecFun : int -> int
> recFun 4;;
??
Example 2: Teaching with Games
The Students are Given:
- An Obfuscated Library
- A Simple API
- A Simple Template Example
- Time to play
- Motivation via Competition
Example 3: The Code-off
Some compete for supremacy,
others learn a few things.
Example 4: The Playground
Play should be fundamental
Help build an inviting F# community culture
Tell people about why you love F#
Make your presentation format engaging
Encourage others to Speak
Be sympathetic to new users
Agree? Disagree? Email me:
Richard.Minerich@gmail.com

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