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 ...

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

• 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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