Functional programming

Introduction to the functional programming paradigm.

At the end of the course, participants will:

• understand the essential notions of functional programming
• know the most important platforms to implement those notions

Contents

• Limits of orientation to objects

• What is functional programing and what is it used for?

• Essential notions of functional programming

  • Referential transparency

  • Immutability

  • High level functions

  • Recursiveness

  • Strict and non strict evaluation

  • Type inference

  • Declarative vs Imperative programming

• Platforms to use functional programming in real projects:

  • Scala

  • Groovy

  • Java 8

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