The choice of the first programming language and the corresponding programming paradigm is an important part of the software development process. Knowing the advantages and constraints of individual ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

Moving from object-oriented to functional programming is a paradigm shift for developers, but these key principles explain why it's worth the effort.

Functional programming is one of the most promising approaches to the problem of how to program in parallel, as the computers around us inevitably become more and more parallel. The course covers ...

Learn how functional programming languages emerged from the academic context and are now finding a lot more practical applications.

Like so much else in software development, functional programming’s future largely depends on the open source communities built around functional languages and concepts. For example, one barrier to ...