Functional Programming in Scala
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Functional Programming in Scala
Chiusano and Bjarnason
8 people recommended it in 6 threads, 2014–2020.
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Next up is Cipolla, Clocks and Culture and Chiusano and Bjarnason, Functional Programming in Scala.
Not for Scala beginners, more for people who want to learn functional programming paradigm and how to apply its ideas in Scala. Very clear explanations of immutability, laziness, monads, etc. There are also a lot of interesting programming problems in the book to train yourself.
It's not a book about scala, it just so happens to use scala as the language to teach you how to program functionally. I've read other books that purport to do the same, they end up showing a light sprinkling of functional concepts. This book goes much deeper, and is ultimately much more rewarding.
This book covers lot's of FP concepts in a very simple way, and I bet that anyone that struggles daily with hard-to-maintain OO projects would fall in love with it FP.
Next up is Cipolla, Clocks and Culture and Chiusano and Bjarnason, Functional Programming in Scala.
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