Continuing with our programming series, we will talk about Function – much of all that it entails. Understanding functions is important if you want to learn how to code. The same applies to ...

Immutability Another tenet of functional programming philosophy is not to modify data outside the function. In practice, this means to avoid modifying the input arguments to a function.

We’ll start by creating small programs for our very own video game to show how statements Today, Carrie Anne is going to start our overview of the fundamental building blocks of programming ...

Chapter 6: Functions and Functional Programming Substantial programs are broken up into functions for better modularity and ease of maintenance. Python makes it easy to define functions but also ...

The demo program defines function my.qsort, which implements the quicksort algorithm to sort an array. If you refer to the code in Listing 1, you'll see that function my.qsort calls itself. Let me ...

Programming is about actually accomplishing something, not about conforming with a model of the real world. It seems like advice we see every day now, as Java 8 matures and we see Java 9 features like ...