3 pages tagged with "functional-programming"

I recently completed the “Principles of Reactive Programming” course on Coursera - I’m very interested in FRP (and libraries like ReactiveCocoa) as I find a lot of the most painful bugs in the iOS code I work on relate to using mutable flags/timestamps (or application state) to coordinate multiple e… read more

I’ve just finished Erik Meijer’s FP101x “Introduction to Functional Programming” course, and it was a bit of a mixed bag. Note that this was my first MOOC, so take this review with a grain of salt. Firstly, the good. Erik’s lectures were well-paced and entertaining, and for the most part communicate… read more

The second YOW talk Dave Thomas delivered back on the 30th September was entitled “Why Real Developers Embrace Functional Programming and NoSQL: Data Confessions of an Object’holic and Stateful Sinner”. Needless to say, it contained a fair bit of controversial content that Dave was fairly unapologet… read more