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  • Changelog
  • Introductory Matter
  • Functional Programming Background (Section)
  • Scala and Functional Programming (Section)
  • Scala Recursion Lessons (Section)
    • Recursion: Introduction
    • Recursion: Motivation
    • Recursion: Let’s Look at Lists
    • Recursion: How to Write a ‘sum’ Function in Scala
    • Recursion: How Recursive Scala Function Calls Work
    • Recursion: Visualizing the recursive `sum` Function
    • Recursion: A Conversation Between Two Developers
    • Recursion: Thinking Recursively
    • JVM Stacks and Stack Frames
    • A Visual Look at JVM Stacks and Frames
    • Tail-Recursive Algorithms in Scala
  • A First Look at “State” in Functional Programming
  • A Functional Game (With a Little Bit of State)
  • A Quick Review of Scala’s Case Classes
  • Scala/FP Idiom: Update as You Copy, Don’t Mutate
  • A Quick Review of Scala’s ‘for’ Expressions
  • How to Write a Scala Class That Can Be Used in a `for` Expression
  • How to Create a Scala Sequence Class to be Used in a ‘for’ Expression
  • How to Make Sequence Work in a Simple Scala `for` Loop
  • How To Make Sequence Work as a Single Generator in a `for` Expression
  • How to Enable Filtering in a Scala `for` Expression
  • How to Enable the Use of Multiple Generators in a Scala `for` Expression
  • Lessons that didn’t fit in the printed book

Scala Recursion Lessons (Section)

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This section contains lessons on recursion (recursive programming) in Scala. The lessons in this section are listed below.

  • Recursion: Introduction
  • Recursion: Motivation
  • Recursion: Let’s Look at Lists
  • Recursion: How to Write a ‘sum’ Function in Scala
  • Recursion: How Recursive Scala Function Calls Work
  • Recursion: Visualizing the recursive `sum` Function
  • Recursion: A Conversation Between Two Developers
  • Recursion: Thinking Recursively
  • JVM Stacks and Stack Frames
  • A Visual Look at JVM Stacks and Frames
  • Tail-Recursive Algorithms in Scala

Book traversal links for Scala Recursion Lessons (Section)

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  • A Scala factorial recursion example
  • Recursion: Let’s Look at Lists
  • A Scala port of the Real World Haskell 'myDrop' function
  • Scala/FP book, coming soon
  • Recursion: How to Write a ‘sum’ Function in Scala
  • Functional Programming, Simplified (Scala edition)

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