Tag: FP

  • Functional Light JavaScript workshop

    Functional Light JavaScript workshop

    Functionite company did an impressive job bringing JavaScript expert Kyle Simpson to their hometown Warsaw, Poland in September last year. He led You Don’t Know JS Workshops, 5 days of JavaScript classes focused on learning new skills and the best practices. I joined on the last day to attend an excellent workshop titled Functional-Light JavaScript. In this post, I wanted to share slides and my…

  • A journey to functional JavaScript: Part 1 – fundamentals

    A journey to functional JavaScript: Part 1 – fundamentals

    JavaScript has a quite fascinating history. Brendan Eich created on his own the first language prototype in just ten days. Its implementation was highly influenced by the concepts of first-class functions from Scheme and prototypes from Self. Initially, it was developed under the name Mocha, but released as LiveScript. The latter name didn’t last long either. Java was so hot back in 1995, that Netscape decided to…

  • Exploring functional JavaScript

    Exploring functional JavaScript

    I started exploring functional programming (FP) concepts over a year ago. I have already shared my initial learning materials in one of the previous posts. It was only the beginning of my journey and today I would like to give you a much more detailed update on that topic. I picked the most interesting resources I discovered in the recent months.…

  • Learning functional programming

    Lately I wanted to explore more in-depth functional programming concepts. When I was looking for resources I found an interesting bundle (with 60% discount) from O’Reilly: Functional Thinking – book by Neal Ford Functional Thinking – video by Neal Ford It turned out they are really nice because they present code examples from the different programming languages like: Java, Scala or Closure. That…