Functional Programming Tutorials and Insights

What does / and * mean in a Python function definition mean

Tighten your typing and don't let runtime errors slip through the cracks!

You’re at dinner with a group of friends. Everyone knows how much their meal cost. You have to add up each person’s meal cost to get a total. You: $11 Alice: $10 Bob: $12 Claire: $13 Procedural You...

How to create a serverless function on Azure for Linux Server to redirect a non-www domain to a www domain with SSL

mini-series of tutorials to spend some time with the ZIO, at the forefront of hip functional scala.

When we work with JavaScript, we deal a lot with conditions to make our platform dynamic, accommodate the needs of different user’s and ensure the platform is secure, hence understanding conditional logic is of utmost importance.

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One of the road-blocking stones I found when I start learning functional programming languages, was the lack of loop constructs. Back then, I was curious about how functional programmers get even...

An introduction to the functional programming model in the coming Spring 5.2.

A short intro to Reactive Functional Programming.

This is a post from my personal blog located Here (https://lvrbrtsn.com/blog/how-the-hell-do-i-use-map/) They are published there a day or so early. How fancy. I often encourage my students to use...

I'm working on a Phoenix application which uses the Instagram API via the Elixtagram (https://github.com/zensavona/elixtagram) library. There is a particular page where I need to display a bunch of...

The maintainable component structure is a crucial prerequisite for a stable React application. You can achieve this by writing your code in a functional way using higher-order components (HoCs). If you stick to this pattern, you’ll end up with reusable...

How thinking about composition can make you a better programmer, regardless of what language you use.

Functional programming is all about transformations. For the actual transformations we use things called transformers. Transformers are typically implemented as pure functions that takes an input...

We all love Elixir. It’s expressive, it’s extremely readable and - first and foremost - It runs on BEAM — an incredible virtual machine that turns concurrency into...

This post introduces and provides examples for higher order functions and their abilities to take other functions as arguments.

A small introduction to currying in JavaScript. In this article you'll learn what currying is, how and why to use it

Using for loops to loop data? Well stop it. Learn the functional mantra of "Filter, Map, Reduce" and live life how the JS yogis meant it to be.

A neat trick using the functional concept, currying, to clean up your React code.