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Learn Functional Programming in Python

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Functional programming is back in vogue. There's a reason front-end frameworks like React and Vue are moving toward functional programming, and after this course you'll more than understand its benefits. We'll dive in-depth into all of the foundational concepts of functional programming in a familiar language.

Syllabus

  • What is Functional Programming?
    • Learn about the difference between OOP and functional styles, and what the real difference is: imperative vs. declarative
  • First Class Functions
    • First class and higher order functions are foundational to everything we do in the functional paradigm
  • Pure Functions
    • My favorite part of functional programming is the focus on pure functions that are easy to test and reason about
  • Recursion
    • While not unique to functional programming, recursion is a powerful tool that is used often when trying to avoid imperative code
  • Function Transformations
    • Learn how to transform functions into other functions to write more abstract and generalized code
  • Closures
    • Learn about encapsulating state within functions and how to use closures to write more expressive code
  • Currying
    • Learn to transform a function with multiple parameters into a series of functions with one parameter, and why you might want to do that
  • Decorators
    • Learn about Python's decorators and how they're essentially syntactic sugar for higher order functions
  • Sum Types
    • Learn about sum types, a powerful way to represent data that is used in many functional languages

Taught by

Lane Wagner, Allan, Dan, Matt, and Hunter

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