Questions tagged [f#]
F# is a succinct, expressive, and efficient functional and object-oriented language for .NET
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F# code to check whether there are three same digits within a given number
I came across this problem by accident and gave it a go. I think my solution works as it has passed all the unit tests I wrote. Given I just started learning F# a couple of weeks I would love to have ...
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Solving adventcode day 6 puzzle: toggling lights in a grid
I have solved the day 6 adventcode problem:
--- Day 6: Probably a Fire Hazard ---
Because your neighbors keep defeating you in the holiday house
decorating contest year after year, you've ...
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Prime factorization in F#
In the pursuit of learning F#, I have been working through some Project Euler problems.
This is my solution for problem 3:
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Finding the largest prime factor
As many people will undoubtedly recognise, this is a question in a well known series of problems that I won't name ;)
It's been a long time since I've written any F# and I'm not sure I've ever come ...
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World's worst Christmas tree
Inspired by this question, I decided to grow my own fractal tree.
The problem is: given an integer \$n\$, \$0 \leq n \leq 5\$, print the \$n\$th iteration of the fractal tree. The tree is probably ...
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Constructing a simple tree with ASCII in F#
This is just a basic HackerRank challenge I was working on to better understand F#. Its purpose is just to print a tree that has a straight 'trunk' of \$n\$, splits into 2 branches which diverge to \$...
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Project Euler 6: Difference between sum of squares and square of sum
I've created a (very) simple solution for Project Euler problem 6:
Project Euler Problem 6: Sum square difference
The sum of the squares of the first ten natural numbers is,
$$ 1^2 + 2^2 +...
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Project Euler Problems #1-#5
Since I've been playing with F#, I decided to try my hand at implementing some of the Project Euler problems, and I've been having a blast doing it. (f#-is-fun)
So, I'm going to list all the Project ...
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F#zzBuzz: Learning the easy way
So I made a quick programme in F# to do FizzBuzz, I'm trying to learn more languages, so I figured I'd do something functional for a change. (Haskell is also on the list.)
FizzBuzz is pretty self-...
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Find unique variants of a product
I am writing a piece of code that returns all the unique variants that a product is available in for an ecommerce app. For example, a shirt product can be available in different colors, sizes, and ...
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Digit Power Sum with BigInteger
This is my 1st F# program so I'm open to any and all criticism on my syntax and the way I approached the problem.
Challenge
Project Euler 16: Power Digit Sum
2^15 = 32768 and the sum of its digits ...
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Summations and products and factorials oh my
The proper title of this question should be "Summations and products, and factorials oh my!".
After getting quite a bit of useful feedback on this question from @mjolka, and a comment, I decided that ...
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Trying to do Type-Driven Development in F#
I've been wanting to try out F# for some real world programming so I decided to try rewriting a program that is being used at work.
It can be reduced to a few steps:
Get report templates.
In this ...
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Summations and products in F#
I was bored, and looking to do something that involved anonymous functions, and it was suggested by @Quill, that I create a summation function. I decided to also include a product function as well to ...
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Renaming video files based on episode title lookup
I'm new to F#, so I've ported an old Python script I have to F#. It scans a directory for files named something like Game.Of.Thrones.S01E02.xvidblahblah.mp4 or <...
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Creating a structured category list in F#
This takes a list of categories and organizes them into a tree-type structure based on their parentId. This code works, but is obviously a little over-complicated. ...
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Lindenmayer System String Generator in F#
Lindenmayer Systems or L-systems are fractals that can be constructed by applying replacement rules to a string for a certain amount of iterations. For example:
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Small game written in F#
I'm trying to wrap my head around F#. I'd like your honest opinion about this simple game source code that I wrote. Rules are simple:
Every player has soldiers and territory
Player can recruit ...
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Utopian Tree in F#
This is the Utopian Tree in F# (from HackerRank)
The Utopian tree goes through 2 cycles of growth every year. The first
growth cycle of the tree occurs during the monsoon, when it doubles in
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Hello Functional World: Counting occurrences of each letter
Coming from a OO (C#) background, I am trying to learn some FP. To help me transition, I am trying to learn F#. I am taking baby steps.
I set myself a simple challenge to count the instances of each ...
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Add two numbers stored as a list in F#
I am solving the following problem:
You are given two lists representing two non-negative numbers. The digits are stored in reverse order and each of their nodes contain a single digit. Add the two ...
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Game of life in F#
First attempt at doing anything F#-y from a very heavy C# background, think I've grasped the fundamentals of FP, but always good to get other eyes on it:
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Mock/Stub out filesystem in F# for unit testing
I'm looking to do some basic verification testing on my functions that write to the filesystem.
I took a hint from here on how to mock out the filesystem using an interface, but I'm kinda bummed on ...
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Reverse Polish Notation in F#
In my question to learn F#, I've decided to get one step closer to creating a programming language, and implement this simple Reverse Polish Notation "interpreter" of sorts.
It does not allow for ...
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Efficient generic type conversion between numeric types in F#
It's easy to write a function that adds two ints in F#:
let add x y = x + y
Actually, it's the same as:
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F# inventory system - Part 2
I've refactored my previous inventory system, and added a few features like removing items from the Inventory class, easily obtaining the current selected item ...
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F# inventory system
To learn F#, I've implemented this very simple inventory system. While I'm proud that that it's my first program, and that it works, there are still a few areas that I'd like tips on, namely these:
I ...
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Reading input from console in F# (as a sequence of lines)
Consuming input line-by-line until the end is often useful. In C# I would write the following loop:
while ((line = Console.ReadLine()) != null) {
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Building and flattening a dependency graph
The Problem
Given a list of dependencies ('a * 'a) list where the first item has a dependency on the second item, construct a dependency graph and then 'flatten' ...
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Projecting future positions
My code takes a starting position (which must be completed) and a list of updates (each element of which is optional). It then projects future positions, using the appropriate value from each update, ...
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Sudoku game logic
I am trying to create a Sudoku game in F# and I'm having a bit of trouble with the file reading and writing. But since I've also just started programming in f# I would like to check if my thinking is ...
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Extracting meta data from nupkg file with F# looks like C# Linq
The code snippet below examines a nuget package file (zip file with meta) and extracts all file names referenced inside. The final result should be a ...
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Saving an uploaded file and returning form data
I am new to F#. This code is basically a port I did from C#. I am sure there is room for a ton of improvement, so how can I improve and make this more efficient?
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Aggregation of values over a hierarchy
I have a number of objects of a type Workplace that exist in a hierarchy that is given by some properties (Department, ...
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Test file word cloud in F#
This code is meant to take in a command line argument and output a 'tag cloud'. It's more of an exercise in learning F# for me because this is my first non-tutorial code file. How could this code be ...
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Small console app to execute some remote scripts
I'm learning F# and functional programming, from a background in C# and imperative/OOP. I've ported a small, one-off console app from C# to F#. The port worked (the app behaves the same way), but I'd ...
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Brainfuck interpreter in F#
I have some concerns, like the updateValue function. I was trying to follow the functional paradigm, but I wonder if I could use another approach or something.
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Better yielding tuple-d union case values in list generation
I have a situation where I'm stitching three different unions into a triplet tuple for building a map/dictionary of strongly typed values keyed on a string.
One of the union cases is very large, the ...
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Command Dispatcher for messaging using MailboxProcessor
This code is intended to process commands in a CQRS+Messaging system. It will parallelize the message processing to the degree you specify by the msgToIdFn ...
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Finding a customer's gender
I have been playing with Async/parallel execution in entity framework for while. I'm not sure if I'm doing it right.
I have two entity contexts: one for reading and one for writing. The reading ...
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Extracting a maximum from zipped lists
I have code that zips 3 lists, finds a maximum and extracts part of the max tuple. Isn't there a shorter way to do this in F#?
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Generic build script using Fake
I have something like a generic build script for a group of projects. I am using Fake but my F# skills are pretty bad. Would you please take a look and point where I can improve it?
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CRUD (database layer) for F# with TypeProviders
I am a newbie in F# and I am thinking about use F# in my next project. The project will work the database and I need to store and retrieve instances of objects in the Db.
Could you please check my ...
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Structuring Test Data
I'm just getting started with F# and was writing some unit tests for some functionality I had written. In the interest of brevity, I decided to create some lists of the different test cases and just ...
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Lightweight TicTacToe in F#
This is more of a 'model' of TicTacToe, as you'll see it's not "gameified" in the sense that it will allow for inputs and outputs nor will it record any "active" state of the game but those things are ...
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Select some indexes in a list of lists
I have a record type which holds a list of table rows. Each row is also a list. The first row is assumed to be the header row. In addition the type optionally defines a filter - a list of columns (the ...
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DSL design for iOS Autolayout
I am building a small DSL for iOS' autolayout feature. Obviously I want to have a typesafe way to define autolayouts instead of doing VSL. I came up with the following:
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Decompose a value as a sum of square numbers
My daughter had a question on her maths homework which was to write a value as a sum of 4 or fewer square numbers.
For example, x = 73 could be 36 + 36 + 1.
I came up with a really brute force ...
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