The Art of Functional Programming

Introduction
	About This Book
	A Bite of Functional Programming
	Why Functional Programming Matters?
	Required Tools
	Quiz on Imperative vs. Functional Programming
	Answers to Quiz on Imperative vs. Functional Programming
Expressions – Building Blocks of Functional Programs
	Functional Programming is All About Expressions
	Syntax of Expressions
	Parsing Expressions
	Types of Expressions
	Values of Expressions
	Assign Names to Expressions
	Programming Challenges
	Solutions to Programming Challenges
	Quiz on Expressions
	Answers to Quiz on Expressions
Building Abstractions with Functions
	Lambda Calculus: Foundation of Functional Programming
	Function Abstraction and Function Application
	Use Currying for Function Chaining
	Recursive Functions
	General Computation Methods as Higher-Order Functions
	Programming Challenges
	Solutions to Programming Challenges
	Quiz on Functions
	Answers to Quiz on Functions
Compound Data Types
	Group Data Objects into Tuples
	Destruct tuples with pattern matching
	Store Sequences of Data with Lists
	Declare User-defined Types with Algebraic Data Types
	Programming Challenges
	Solutions to Programming Challenges
	Quiz on Compound Datatypes
	Answers to Quiz on Compound Datatypes
Common Computation Patterns
	The map Function
	The filter function
	The fold function
	The zip Function
	Programming Challenges
	Solutions to Programming Challenges
	Quiz on Common Computation Patterns
	Answers to Quiz on Common Computation Patterns
Dataflow Programming with Functions
	List-based Dataflow Programming
	Stream-based Dataflow Programming
	Programming Challenges
	Solutions to Programming Challenges
	Quiz on Dataflow Programming with Functions
	Answers to Quiz on Dataflow Programming with Functions
Applying Functional Programming in Practice
	Handle Collections in Data Processing Applications
	Handle JSON
Conclusion
	Wrap Up
	Where to Go from Here?