Functional Programming for Mortals (The Digital Book)
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Functional Programming for Mortals

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About the Book

This book is for the typical Scala developer, probably with a Java background, who is both sceptical and curious about the Functional Programming (FP) paradigm. This book justifies every concept with practical examples, including writing a web application.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How does it compare to the red book?

A: This book is blue.

Q: Where can I buy a physical copy?

A: Hardback books are available at Lulu (and budget Paperbacks too).

Q: Is this suitable for beginners?

A: No, this is an intermediate book. First read Programming in Scala or Essential Scala.

Q: I know Haskell, is this book for me?

A: You're not really the target audience. Also, I am so sorry.

Q: Why is the cover so ugly?

A: Because I love Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics.

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    • Functional Programming
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About the Author

Sam Halliday
Sam Halliday

Chartered Mathematician, Haskell and Emacs hacker, Free Software / education zealot. Read an interview with Sam by Leanpub.

Table of Contents

  • About This Book
  • Copyleft Notice
  • Thanks
  • Practicalities
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Abstracting over Execution
    • 1.2 Pure Functional Programming
  • 2. For Comprehensions
    • 2.1 Syntax Sugar
    • 2.2 Unhappy path
    • 2.3 Gymnastics
    • 2.4 Incomprehensible
  • 3. Application Design
    • 3.1 Specification
    • 3.2 Interfaces / Algebras
    • 3.3 Business Logic
    • 3.4 Unit Tests
    • 3.5 Parallel
    • 3.6 Summary
  • 4. Data and Functionality
    • 4.1 Data
    • 4.2 Functionality
    • 4.3 Modelling OAuth2
    • 4.4 Summary
  • 5. Scalaz Typeclasses
    • 5.1 Agenda
    • 5.2 Appendable Things
    • 5.3 Objecty Things
    • 5.4 Mappable Things
    • 5.5 Variance
    • 5.6 Apply and Bind
    • 5.7 Applicative and Monad
    • 5.8 Divide and Conquer
    • 5.9 Plus
    • 5.10 Lone Wolves
    • 5.11 Co-things
    • 5.12 Bi-things
    • 5.13 Summary
  • 6. Scalaz Data Types
    • 6.1 Type Variance
    • 6.2 Evaluation
    • 6.3 Memoisation
    • 6.4 Tagging
    • 6.5 Natural Transformations
    • 6.6 Isomorphism
    • 6.7 Containers
    • 6.8 Collections
    • 6.9 Summary
  • 7. Advanced Monads
    • 7.1 Always in motion is the Future
    • 7.2 Effects and Side Effects
    • 7.3 Stack Safety
    • 7.4 Monad Transformer Library
    • 7.5 A Free Lunch
    • 7.6 Parallel
    • 7.7 IO
    • 7.8 Summary
  • 8. Typeclass Derivation
    • 8.1 Running Examples
    • 8.2 scalaz-deriving
    • 8.3 Magnolia
    • 8.4 Shapeless
    • 8.5 Performance
    • 8.6 Summary
  • 9. Wiring up the Application
    • 9.1 Overview
    • 9.2 Main
    • 9.3 Blaze
    • 9.4 Thank You
  • Typeclass Cheatsheet
  • Haskell
    • Data
    • Functions
    • Typeclasses
    • Records of Functions
    • Modules
    • Evaluation
    • Next Steps
  • Third Party Licenses
    • Scala License
    • Scalaz License

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