The Art of Functional Programming

Introduction About This Book A Bite of Functional Programming Why Functional Programming Matters? Required Tools Quiz on Imperative vs. Functional Programming Answers to Quiz on Imperative vs. Functional Programming Expressions – Building Blocks of Functional Programs Functional Programming is All About Expressions Syntax of Expressions Parsing Expressions Types of Expressions Values of Expressions Assign Names to Expressions Programming Challenges Solutions to Programming Challenges Quiz on Expressions Answers to Quiz on Expressions Building Abstractions with Functions Lambda Calculus: Foundation of Functional Programming Function Abstraction and Function Application Use Currying for Function Chaining Recursive Functions General Computation Methods as Higher-Order Functions Programming Challenges Solutions to Programming Challenges Quiz on Functions Answers to Quiz on Functions Compound Data Types Group Data Objects into Tuples Destruct tuples with pattern matching Store Sequences of Data with Lists Declare User-defined Types with Algebraic Data Types Programming Challenges Solutions to Programming Challenges Quiz on Compound Datatypes Answers to Quiz on Compound Datatypes Common Computation Patterns The map Function The filter function The fold function The zip Function Programming Challenges Solutions to Programming Challenges Quiz on Common Computation Patterns Answers to Quiz on Common Computation Patterns Dataflow Programming with Functions List-based Dataflow Programming Stream-based Dataflow Programming Programming Challenges Solutions to Programming Challenges Quiz on Dataflow Programming with Functions Answers to Quiz on Dataflow Programming with Functions Applying Functional Programming in Practice Handle Collections in Data Processing Applications Handle JSON Conclusion Wrap Up Where to Go from Here?