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Re: Learning F# with Games
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Oh hells yeah, sounds like a blast!
On Nov 22, 9:12 pm, Sebastian Hermida <seba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One more vote
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> Sebastian
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> On Nov 22, 2010, at 8:24 PM, Trotter Cashion <cash...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Sounds pretty fun
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> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Christopher Chau <christopher.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > +1
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> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Aaron Kuehler <aaronkueh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ditto. Sounds like a good opportunity.
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> > Aaron Kuehler
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> > On Nov 22, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Aaron Feng <aaron.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Hi All,
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> > > I've been in contact with Richard Minerich, one of the authors of
> > > Professional F#, about coming to Philly to do an F# training /
> > > presentation. I thought it would be interesting for him to run a
> > > similar, but _different_, tutorial that he ran at CUFP
> > > (http://cufp.org/conference/sessions/2010/f-20-day-beach) for us.
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> > > Basically Richard wrote an ants simulation game to teach people about
> > > F#. You can tweak the behavior of the game using DSL he has written
> > > or tweak the AI in F# to get better results. The contestants battle
> > > each other in the end! Richard's blog has more concrete details about
> > > the tutorial:http://richardminerich.com/2010/10/cufp-a-day-at-the-beach
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> > > As many of you already know F# is currently an official open source
> > > project under the Apache 2.0 license and can run under Mono. This
> > > tutorial will _NOT_ require a Windows machine. Please bring your Mac
> > > or Linux box if you prefer. I will help Richard to make this happen
> > > to ensure everyone has a great experience.
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> > > This will likely happen early next year on a Saturday. The whole
> > > tutorial should run between 4 -6 hours. Since Richard will be
> > > traveling to Philly and there are a lot of logistics I need to figure
> > > out, I need to know ahead of time how many people are interested in
> > > this.
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> > > This tutorial doesn't assume you know anything about F#. In fact, you
> > > can still play the game via the DSL.
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> > > For those you are interested in learning about FP this is a great
> > > chance to learn it the fun way.
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> > > Aaron
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> > > Pro F# 2.0
> > >http://www.amazon.com/Professional-F-2-0-Ted-Neward/dp/047052801X/ref...
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