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Learn Functional Programming in Python

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English
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22 hours
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Self-Paced
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Intermediate

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Functional programming is back in vogue. There's a reason front-end frameworks like React and Vue are moving toward functional programming, and after this course you'll more than understand its benefits. We'll dive in-depth into all of the foundational concepts of functional programming in a familiar language.

Syllabus

Functional Programming — Learn about the difference between OOP and functional styles, and what the real difference is: imperative vs. declarative
First-Class Functions — First-class and higher-order functions are foundational to everything we do in the functional paradigm.
Pure Functions — My favorite part of functional programming is the focus on pure functions that are easy to test and reason about
Recursion — While not unique to functional programming, recursion is a powerful tool that is used often when trying to avoid imperative code
Function Transformations — Learn how to transform functions into other functions to write more abstract and generalized code
Closures — Learn about encapsulating state within functions and how to use closures to write more expressive code
Currying — Learn to transform a function with multiple parameters into a series of functions with one parameter, and why you might want to do that
Decorators — Learn about Python's decorators and how they're essentially syntactic sugar for higher-order functions
Sum Types — Learn about sum types, a powerful way to represent data that is used in many functional languages

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