Functional Thinking
Concepts of functional programming is made much harder when the developer is also trying to learn a new language, like Haskell, Scala or Clojure at the same time. With that in mind, we focus on relating functional concepts in a common language: Java.
There is a video presentation intended for technical and semi-technical alike. Although programming techniques are discussed, semi-technical audiences can fully appreciate the the rationale and flexibility of functional programming.
Video presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeK979aqqqc&index=4&list=PLB8bONI91cF5-cK_CdaeZqE807ZTt5-XX
Take aways from this presentation:
- Think about results, not the steps.
- Immutability over state transitions.
- Results over steps.
- Composition over structure.
- Declarative over imperative.
Details from our meetup:
