The first part focuses on fundamental concepts and techniques used in functional programming, such as referential transparency, purity, laziness, functional data structures, etc.

Functional programming concepts and terminology Functional programming is a programming style in which computations are codified as functional programming functions.

So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how powerful the basic building blocks of functional programming are when combined.

Microsoft's efforts to push dynamic and functional programming into the mainstream are one of many signs that the art of software development is enjoying a profound renaissance.

The functional Predicate interface gets used extensively by the Java 8 Streams API. Any developer who wants to master functional programming in Java will need to be comfortable with the Predicate ...