Functional Programming in Java (Manning)
Thursday, 16 February 2017

This book teaches you how to incorporate the benefits of functional programming into new and existing Java code. Author Pierre-Yves Saumont shows how to think functionally about coding tasks in Java and use FP to make your applications easier to understand, optimize, maintain, and scale and uses easy-to-grasp examples, exercises, and illustrations to teach core Functional Programming principles ...

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such as referential transparency, immutability, persistence, and laziness.The book shows how to carry out safer concurrent and parallel programming, and covers Java 8 features including lambdas, method references, and functional interfaces

Author: Pierre-Yves Saumont
Publisher: Manning Publications
Date: January 2017
Pages: 472
ISBN: 978-1617292736
Print: 1617292737
Audience: Java developers
Level: Intermediate
Category: Methodology

 

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  • What is functional programming?
  • Using functions in Java
  • Making Java more functional
  • Recursion, corecursion, and memoization
  • Data handling with lists
  • Dealing with optional data
  • Handling errors and exceptions
  • Advanced list handling
  • Working with laziness
  • More data handling with trees
  • Solving real problems with advanced trees
  • Handling state mutation in a functional way
  • Functional input/output
  • Sharing mutable state with actors
  • Solving common problems functionally

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