083: Learning the basics of functional programing with Anup Cowkur

Fragmented - An Android Developer Podcast

English - May 15, 2017 05:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 53 ratings
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RxJava is considered a functional reactive programming library. But the paradigms of functional programming have existed for a very long time. In this episode we talk to Android GDE Anup Cowkur, about his experience experimenting with "pure" functional languages. He breaks down some of the basic concepts, explaining the different terms along the way.

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Show Notes

Gordon Moore & Moore's law
Rich Hickey on Clojure's Features and Implementation
PCollections - persistent Java collections library

Functional languages:

Elixir
Elm
Scala
Lisp
Haskell
Erlang

Resources

Anup's multi part series on functional programming
The Context podcast - Functional programming with Paco Estevez
Anjana Vakil: Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript - JSUnconf 2016
Learning functional programming and compositional software techniques in JavaScript - Eric Elliot

083: Learning the basics of functional programing with Anup Cowkur

Fragmented - An Android Developer Podcast

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