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Mastering Functional Programming

You're reading from Mastering Functional Programming Functional techniques for sequential and parallel programming with Scala

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788620796

Length 380 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Scala

Concepts

Functional Programming

Author (1):

Anatolii Kmetiuk

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. The Declarative Programming Style FREE CHAPTER

2. Functions and Lambdas

3. Functional Data Structures

4. The Problem of Side Effects

5. Effect Types - Abstracting Away Side Effects

6. Effect Types in Practice

7. The Idea of the Type Classes

8. Basic Type Classes and Their Usage

9. Libraries for Pure Functional Programming

10. Patterns of Advanced Functional Programming

11. Introduction to the Actor Model

12. The Actor Model in Practice

13. Use Case - A Parallel Web Crawler

14. Introduction to Scala

15. Assessments

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

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