Learn Functional Programming

After completing a ridiculous amount of research over the past couple of month, I presented on functional programming early last week.  Even though I’ve playing with F# quite a bit lately, I didn’t focus on any specific functional or multi-paradigm language.  Instead my presentation included an overview of functional programming in general. 

Update 4/28/2009: I’ve posted my slide deck.  Check out Part 1 of the Functional Programming Series.

I compiled a good number of references during my research. If you are interested in learning more about functional programming, I suggest you consult any of the references below. Or you may just wish to wait for me to publish my slide deck.  

1..NET Rocks - Show 377: Ted Neward and Amanda Laucher on F#
http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=377

2..NET Rocks - Show 310: Simon Peyton Jones on Haskell and Functional Programming
http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=310

3..NET Rocks - Show 293: F# Moves Forward
http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=293

4..NET Rocks - Show 266: Jon Harrop Makes Us F#
http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=266

5.Deep Fried Bytes - Episode 24: Chatting about F# with Chris Smith and Dustin Campbell
http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-24-chatting-about-f-with-chris-smith-and-dustin-campbell/

6.Deep Fried Bytes - Episode 23: Functional Programming in C# with Oliver Sturm
http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-23-functional-programming-in-csharp-with-oliver-sturm/

7.Software Engineering Radio - Episode 108: Simon Peyton Jones on Functional Programming and Haskell
http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-08/episode-108-simon-peyton-jones-functional-programming-and-haskell

8.Software Engineering Radio - Episode 89: Joe Armstrong on Erlang
http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-03/episode-89-joe-armstrong-erlang

9.Software Engineering Radio - Episode 84: Dick Gabriel on Lisp
http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-01/episode-84-dick-gabriel-lisp

10.Software Engineering Radio - Episode 62: Martin Odersky on Scala
http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2007-07/episode-62-martin-odersky-scala

11.Herding Code - Episode 18: Matt Podwysocki on F# and Functional Programming
http://herdingcode.com/?p=45

12.Pragmatic Podcast - Episode 24: Stuart Halloway on Programming Clojure
http://www.pragprog.com/podcasts/show/24

13.Elegant Code Codecast - Episode 24: Matt Podwysocki on Functional Programming
http://elegantcode.com/2009/02/27/code-cast-24-matt-podwysocki-on-functional-programming/

14.Matthew Podwysocki’s Blog
http://codebetter.com/blogs/matthew.podwysocki/default.aspx

15.Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

16.Real World Functional programming in .NET, Petricek

17.Functional Programming for the Rest of Us, Slava Akhmechet
http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html

18.Why Functional Programming Matters, John Hughes
http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html

19.Functional Programming HOW TO
http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/functional#introduction

20.Expert F#, Syme, Granicz and Cisternino

21.Foundations of F#, Pickering

22.An Introduction to Microsoft F#
http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL11

23.F# Eye for the C# Guy, Leon Bambrick
http://secretgeek.net/content/fsharp_leonb.pdf