Advanced Functional Programming in Kotlin: monads and more!
Increase your functional programming knowledge and skills, and bright even more in your job interviews
Advanced Functional Programming in Kotlin: monads and more! free download
Increase your functional programming knowledge and skills, and bright even more in your job interviews
In recent years, all the new programming languages that have emerged include more or less prominent functional features. We all start by using a filter, then a map, flatMap, reduce... at first, it seems easy!
Then we try to learn concepts like monad, functor, monoid, applicative... we read a tutorial here, a blog post there... and after all, we think "I'm never going to understand this."
And I have to tell you—it’s not that hard, you're just using the wrong approach: to understand what a monad is, you have to create your own monad. Then a second one, a third... and voilà, you understand what you're doing, even if no one has actually explained it to you.
In this course, you’re going to do exactly that: understand the concepts of functional programming in a 100% practical way, with exercises in Kotlin. That way, you’ll immerse yourself in it, internalize it, and by the end of the day, you’ll know what a monad is (and a functor, a monoid, an applicative...) even if you’re not quite sure how you ended up learning it.
This course is focused is the most obscure part of the functional programming: the functional abstractions, or as we call them: functional patterns.
Monoid
Semi-group
Monad
Applicative
Don’t hesitate—functional programming is one of the few disciplines that will truly change the way you think, and that will make you a much more valuable programmer than someone who only knows the latest trendy framework.
IMPORTANT: this course is the advanced part of the course "Functional Programming in Kotlin: to monads and beyond!"
