Functional Programming Courses and Certifications

Advanced Scala and Functional Programming

3554 ratings at Udemy

For Scala developers: become a top level Scala programmer so you can rock Spark, Akka, Cats or any Scala tool!

• Udemy
• 13 hours 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Java 8 Functional Programming: Lambda Expressions Quickly

2716 ratings at Udemy

Get up and running with Java lambdas confidently - in conceptual, practical and intuitive manner - in 30 minutes

• Udemy
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Functional Programming with Java and Threads

13 ratings at Coursera

Apply Java lambda expressions, method references, and functional interfaces, then build concurrent programs with platform threads, virtual threads, and Future/FutureTask.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Standard ML

Practice Standard ML through graded exercises: implement ciphers, binary search trees, circular buffers, run-length encoding, Conway's Game of Life, and string and matrix manipulation.

• Exercism
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

PureScript

Practice PureScript through exercises from Hello World to Atbash Cipher, RNA Transcription, Binary Search, Knapsack and Spiral Matrix, modeling computation as evaluation of function applications.

• Exercism
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Idris

Practice Idris through 57 exercises, from Hello World and string reversal to binary search, the Sieve of Eratosthenes, lenses, and Conway's Game of Life.

• Exercism
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Packt

Advanced Java APIs and Functional Programming

Apply advanced Java platform features: context-specific deserialization filters, the Foreign Function and Memory API for C interop, sealed and hidden classes, and custom collectors and comparators.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Functional Python Course (How To)

158-minute Python course: Functional programming is a great addition to any programmer's toolset. FP allows you to quickly filter lists, modify val...

• Treehouse
• 2 hours 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

The Hard Parts of Functional JavaScript

Go under the hood of powerful techniques like: Higher Order Functions, Function Composition, Pure Functions, and Immutability of State.

• Frontend Masters
• 4-5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Functional-Light JavaScript, v3

Improve your JavaScript by applying functional programming concepts like function purity, point-free, partial-application, currying, plus even more advanced concepts.

• Frontend Masters
• 10-11 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Quickly Transform Data with Transducers

Learn to optimize data transformations using transducers, improving performance for large datasets and various iterable data types beyond arrays.

• egghead.io
• 2 hours 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Professor Frisby Introduces Composable Functional JavaScript

Build Box, Either, Task and other algebraic types in JavaScript, refactoring imperative code into single composed expressions with monoids, functors, monads and applicatives.

• egghead.io
• 5 hours 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

This course aims to give you an interactive, gentle and fun introduction to F#.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Foundations of Functional Programming with purrr

94 ratings at DataCamp

Lists can be difficult to both understand and manipulate, but they can pack a ton of information and are very powerful.

• DataCamp
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

JSConf

Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript

Learn functional programming concepts through JavaScript.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk