Two beginner friendly, hands on sessions back to back:
First Stuart will cover getting started with F# outside of visual studio using VS Code or Atom. He will be taking look at Ionide, a suite of F# plugins for VS Code and Atom which includes and integrates with tools such as FAKE, Paket and Forge.
Then using our hipster open source IDE we will be getting used to working with the REPL and .fsx files. Corwin Pierce-Butler will be covering some simple Bandit Algorithms, introducing F#'s fantastic FSlab with it's graphing and data analysis tooling.
This hands on sessions requires no prior knowledge of F# or even anything installed on your machine. Windows + Macs will both work just fine.
If hands on is not your thing, peering over the shoulder of others will probably be fine ;)