Functional Programming in Scala

Examples and exercises from

Functional Programming in Scala
Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason
(2014) Manning Publications
http://www.manning.com/bjarnason/

How to run

$ git clone https://github.com/CarloMicieli/fpinscala
$ sbt test

My student guide

1. What is functional programming?

2. Getting started with functional programming in Scala

   • Hughes, John. "Why functional programming matters." The computer journal 32.2 (1989): 98-107.
   • Braithwaite, Reginald. Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters (blog). 2007. Retrieved from here.

3. Functional data structures

4. Handling errors without exceptions

   • Adelbert Chang, How do I error handle thee?, 2014
   • Daniel Westheide, The Neophyte's Guide to Scala Part 5: The Option Type, 2012
   • Daniel Westheide, The Neophyte's Guide to Scala Part 6: Error Handling With Try, 2012
   • Daniel Westheide, The Neophyte's Guide to Scala Part 7: The Either Type, 2012

5. Strictness and laziness

   • Haskell/Laziness (WikiBook)
   • Heinrich Apfelmus, The Incomplete Guide to Lazy Evaluation (in Haskell), 2015
   • Alp Mestanogullari, Oh my laziness!, 2013
   • Matt Might, Understand and implement laziness with examples in Scala, JavaScript, Swift and Racket

6. Purely functional state

7. Purely functional parallelism

8. Property-based testing

   • Claessen, Koen, and Hughes, John. "QuickCheck: a lightweight tool for random testing of Haskell programs." Acm sigplan notices 46.4 (2011): 53-64.
   • Hughes, John. "QuickCheck testing for fun and profit." Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. 1-32.

9. Parser combinators

   • Hutton, G. (2016). Programming in Haskell. Cambridge University Press.
   • Hutton, Graham, and Erik Meijer. "Monadic parser combinators." (1996).
   • Scott Wlaschin. Understanding parser combinators: a deep dive. NDC Oslo (2016). YouTube recording

10. Monoids

11. Monads

12. Applicative and traversable functors

13. External effects and I/O

14. Local effects and mutable state

15. Stream processing and incremental I/O

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License

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