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Learn Functional Programming 2024 – Best Functional Programming Courses & Best Functional Programming Books

Best Functional Programming Courses 2021

 

Best Functional Programming Tutorials 2021

Functional Programming For Beginners With JavaScript

Most software written today is too complex, difficult to understand, difficult to test, difficult to modify, and full of hard to find bugs.

Ouch! So how do we end up with these problems?

Here are some of the many reasons:

Don’t use the simplest building blocks possible… If you start with something complicated, you will end up with something even more complicated.
Programming in a style more sensitive to complex bugs
Failure to respect and properly manage side effects (talking to servers, entry / exit, etc.)
Sprinkling Application State all through codebases
Data in unnecessary mutation
Code duplication (particularly sneaky, like similar class methods in object-oriented programming)
Write more code than necessary
These are just a few of the many issues that lead to frustrating tasks, working on hard-to-maintain code bases, and adding functionality.

Functional programming solves the above problems as follows:

Simpler applications, because functional programming uses the simplest building blocks possible, just old data and pure functions to transform data (easier to understand and use)
Uses simpler code styles and less prone to complicated bugs (more time for productive work)
Eliminate side effects as much as possible and control them when needed (reduces bugs)
Avoid data mutation as much as possible (reduce bugs)
Uses pure functions, which can work with many types of data (improved code reuse)
Uses generalized functions, which can be specialized to meet different needs (less code, same functionality)
Create new functions, without adding new logic, using function composition (more functionality, no added code)
Functional programming, in my experience, is more productive than object-oriented programming because there is less to think about, so you don’t overwhelm your working memory. Usually you just think of old data and data transformations using functions. Also, in functional programming there aren’t tons of competing ways to do the same thing, so you don’t have to think about unnecessary things. Functional programming is binding and that’s a good thing. You can focus better, on the problem you are solving, rather than on the tools you are using to solve the problem.

In object-oriented programming, you have to think about many different types of complex and stateful objects that you can interact with in different ways. You have to think about more than data and the transformation of data … You have to think about things like condition and side effects, much more than functional programming.

You will learn:

The essence of functional programming, without all the unnecessary technical jargon
How to create applications, in a functional programming style
Create sophisticated applications, with simple code
What are pure functions and why you should use them
How to create new logic, without writing logic, using function composition
What is curry and partial application and how it is useful
What are immutable data structures and why you should use them
Why eliminating and controlling side effects is so important
The advantages of higher-order functions
How to write code in a style that minimizes the risk of difficult bugs
The beauty of declarative programming
How Ramda JavaScript Library Simplifies Functional JavaScript Techniques

Learn Java Functional Programming with Lambdas & Streams

Functional programming was introduced in Java in Java 8. Further improvements in functional programming were introduced in Java 9.

In this hands-on course, we will learn how to write amazing Java code with functional programming. You will learn the basics of Java functional programming – Lambda expressions, method references, flows and functional interfaces.

This course would be a perfect first step as an introduction to functional programming with Java.

You will use Eclipse (Java IDE) in this course. We will help you configure each of them.

You will learn:
You will learn to write good Java code with functional programming
You will solve a number of Java puzzles and exercises using functional programming
You will learn the basics of functional programming – Lambda expressions, method references, flows and functional interfaces
You will learn about intermediate and terminal flow operations – map, collapse, for each, filter, distinguish, sort
You will learn about a variety of functional interfaces – predicate, consumer, provider, binary operator, and function.
You will learn how to simplify your Java code for playing with List and Map using functional programming
You will learn to play with Java files and threads using functional programming
You will learn some basic principles of functional programming – Behavior parameterization and higher order functions

Best Functional Programming Books 2021

Bestsellers

Bestseller No. 1
An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics)
  • Greg Michaelson (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 336 Pages - 08/18/2011 (Publication Date) - Dover Publications (Publisher)
SaleBestseller No. 2
Learn Physics with Functional Programming: A Hands-on Guide to Exploring Physics with Haskell
  • Walck, Scott N. (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 648 Pages - 01/31/2023 (Publication Date) - No Starch Press (Publisher)
Bestseller No. 3
Functional Programming in JavaScript (Functional JavaScript Book 3)
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Salcescu, Cristian (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
SaleBestseller No. 4
Functional and Concurrent Programming: Core Concepts and Features
  • Charpentier, Michel (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 528 Pages - 11/28/2022 (Publication Date) - Addison-Wesley Professional (Publisher)
Bestseller No. 5
Functional Programming in C++: How to improve your C++ programs using functional techniques
  • Cukic, Ivan (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 320 Pages - 11/19/2018 (Publication Date) - Manning (Publisher)
SaleBestseller No. 6
Functional Design: Principles, Patterns, and Practices (Robert C. Martin Series)
  • Martin, Robert (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 384 Pages - 09/21/2023 (Publication Date) - Addison-Wesley Professional (Publisher)
Bestseller No. 7
Functional Programming in Scala, Second Edition
  • Pilquist, Michael (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 488 Pages - 06/06/2023 (Publication Date) - Manning (Publisher)
Bestseller No. 8
Functional Programming in C#, Second Edition
  • Buonanno, Enrico (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 448 Pages - 02/01/2022 (Publication Date) - Manning (Publisher)
Bestseller No. 9
Functional Programming with C#
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Painter, Simon J. (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
Bestseller No. 10
The Art of Functional Programming
  • Tran, Minh Quang (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 284 Pages - 09/27/2022 (Publication Date) - Independently published (Publisher)

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