Functional Programming Simplified

Resources

• Official website

Modules

• [[the-benefits-of-functional-programming]]

Rules for the book

• There will be no null values.
• Only pure functions will be used.
• Immutable values will be used for all fields.
• Whenever you use an if, you must always also use an else.
• We won’t create “classes” that encapsulate data and behavior.

Chapter Checklist

• 1 Introduction (or, Why I Wrote This Book)
• 2 Who This Book is For
• 3 Goals, Part 1: “Soft” Goals of This Book
• 4 Goals, Part 2: Concrete Goals
• 5 Goals, Part 3: A Disclaimer
• 6 Question Everything
• 7 Rules for Programming in this Book
• 8 One Rule for Reading this Book
• 9 What is “Functional Programming”?
• 10 What is This Lambda You Speak Of?
• 11 The Benefits of Functional Programming
• 12 Disadvantages of Functional Programming
• 13 The “Great FP Terminology Barrier”
• 14 Pure Functions
• 15 Grandma’s Cookies (and Pure Functions)
• 16 Benefits of Pure Functions
• 17 Pure Functions and I/O
• 18 Pure Function Signatures Tell All
• 19 Functional Programming as Algebra
• 20 A Note About Expression-Oriented Programming
• 21 Functional Programming is Like Unix Pipelines
• 22 Functions Are Variables, Too // (Talks about Eta Expansion)
• 23 Using Methods As If They Were Functions
• 24 How to Write Functions That Take Functions as Input Parameters
• 25 How to Write a ‘map’ Function
• 26 How to Use By-Name Parameters
• 27 Functions Can Have Multiple Parameter Groups
• 28 Partially-Applied Functions (and Currying)
• 29 Recursion: Introduction
• 30 Recursion: Motivation
• 31 Recursion: Let’s Look at Lists
• 32 Recursion: How to Write a ‘sum’ Function
• 33 Recursion: How Recursive Function Calls Work
• 34 Visualizing the Recursive sum Function
• 35 Recursion: A Conversation Between Two Developers
• 36 Recursion: Thinking Recursively
• 37 JVM Stacks and Stack Frames
• 38 A Visual Look at Stacks and Frames
• 39 Tail-Recursive Algorithms
• 40 A First Look at “State”
• 41 A Functional Game (With a Little Bit of State)
• 42 A Quick Review of Case Classes
• 43 Update as You Copy, Don’t Mutate
• 44 A Quick Review of for Expressions
• 45 How to Write a Class That Can Be Used in a for Expression
• 46 Creating a Sequence Class to be Used in a for Comprehension
• 47 Making Sequence Work in a Simple for Loop
• 48 HowToMakeSequenceWorkasa Single Generator in a for Expression
• 49 Enabling Filtering in a for Expression
• 50 How to Enable the Use of Multiple Generators in a for Expression
• 51 A Summary of the for Expression Lessons
• 52 Pure Functions Tell No Lies
• 53 Functional Error Handling (Option, Try, or Either)
• 54 Embrace The Idioms!
• 55 What to Think When You See That Opening Curly Brace
• 56 A Quick Review of How flatMap Works
• 57 Option Naturally Leads to flatMap
• 58 flatMap Naturally Leads to for
• 59 for Expressions are Better Than getOrElse
• 60 Recap: Option -> flatMap -> for
• 61 A Note About Things That Can Be Mapped-Over
• 62 A Quick Review of Companion Objects and apply
• 63 Starting to Glue Functions Together
• 64 The “Bind” Concept
• 65 Getting Close to Using bind in for Expressions
• 66 Using a “Wrapper” Class in a for Expression
• 67 Making Wrapper More Generic
• 68 Changing “new Wrapper” to “Wrapper”
• 69 Using bind in a for Expression
• 70 How Debuggable, f, g, and h Work
• 71 A Generic Version of Debuggable
• 72 One Last Debuggable: Using List Instead of String
• 73 Key Points About Monads
• 74 Signpost: Where We’re Going Next
• 75 Introduction: The IO Monad
• 76 How to Use an IO Monad
• 77 Assigning a for Expression to a Function
• 78 The IO Monad and a for Expression That Uses Recursion
• 79 Diving Deeper Into the IO Monad
• 80 I’ll Come Back to the IO Monad
• 81 Functional Composition
• 82 An Introduction to Handling State
• 83 Handling State Manually
• 84 Getting State Working in a for Expression
• 85 Handling My Golfing State with a State Monad
• 86 The State Monad Source Code
• 87 Signpost: Getting IO and State Working Together
• 88 TryingtoWriteaforExpression with IO and State
• 89 Seeing the Problem: Trying to Use State and IO Together
• 90 Solving the Problem with Monad Transformers
• 91 Beginning the Process of Understanding StateT
• 92 Getting Started: We’re Going to Need a Monad Trait
• 93 Now We Can Create StateT
• 94 Using StateT in a for Expression
• 95 Trying to Combine IO and StateT in a for Expression
• 96 Fixing the IO Functions With Monadic Lifting
• 97 A First IO/StateT for Expression
• 98 The Final IO/StateT for Expression
• 99 Summary of the StateT Lessons
• 100 Signpost: Modeling the world with Scala/FP
• 101 What is a Domain Model?
• 102 A Review of OOP Data Modeling
• 103 Modeling the “Data” Portion of the Pizza POS System with Scala/FP
• 104 First Attempts to Organize Pure Functions
• 105 Implementing FP Behavior with Modules
• 106 Implementing the Pizza POS System Using a Modular Approach
• 107 The “Functional Objects” Approach
• 108 Demonstrating the “Functional Objects” Approach
• 109 Summary of the Domain Modeling Approaches
• 110 ScalaCheck 1: Introduction
• 111 ScalaCheck 2: A More-Complicated Example
• 112 The Problem with the IO Monad
• 113 Signpost: Type Classes
• 114 Type Classes 101: Introduction
• 115 Type Classes 102: The Pizza Class
• 116 Type Classes 103: The Cats Library
• 117 Lenses, to Simplify “Update as You Copy”
• 118 Signpost: Concurrency
• 119 Concurrency and Mutability Don’t Mix
• 120 Scala Concurrency Tools
• 121 Akka Actors
• 122 Akka Actor Examples
• 123 Scala Futures
• 124 A Second Futures Example
• 125 Key Points About Futures
• 126 A Few Notes About Real World Functional Programming
• 127 Signpost: Wrapping Things Up
• 128 The Learning Path
• 129 Final Summary
• 130 Where To Go From Here
• A Explaining Scala’s val Function Syntax
• B TheDifferencesBetweenvalanddef When Creating Functions
• C A Review of Anonymous Functions
• D Recursion is Great, But ...
• E for expression translation examples
• F On Using def vs val To Define Abstract Members in Traits
• G Algebraic Data Types