Tomas Petricek: How F# Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data

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Tomas Petricek, a PhD student at University of Cambridge focusing on programming models, teaches us about one of his favorite programming languages, F#. The main topic is programming data with F#. Youll learn about Type Providers and Tomas will show how you can easily call REST APIs from F# using type providers and how you can access WorldBank data, but with a slight twist. All the code will be fully translated to JavaScript and will run in any web browser.

Tomas has provided a library of type providers you can use to experiment with what you learn here.

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