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What’s the easiest way to learn functional programming?

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: January 28 2018

People occasionally ask me, “What’s the easiest way to learn functional programming?” If you look at all of the books on the right side of this image, I can tell you that reading all of those books wasn’t an easy way to learn functional programming (FP):

IMHO there’s a much easier way to learn the FP basics: I’ve made almost 40% of my book, Functional Programming, Simplified, freely available.

A free preview of Functional Programming, Simplified

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: December 30 2017

If you’re interested in Functional Programming, Simplified, but can’t decide on whether to buy it or not, I just updated the free PDF preview of the book to help you with that decision. And it’s not just any free preview: it’s over 400 pages long.

Here’s a link to the free preview of Functional Programming, Simplified.

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Version 0.1.4 of “Learning Functional Programming in Scala”

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: September 12 2017

Version 0.1.4 of “Learning Functional Programming in Scala” is now available. The latest changes are:

- 13 new chapters on the StateT monad and monad transformers
- Ten new chapters on Domain Modeling
- Two new chapters on ScalaCheck
- New appendices on Anonymous Functions, and using def vs val in traits
- The PDF now has small 113 chapters, four appendices, and is 983 pages long

To accompany this latest update, the book is on sale for a few days.

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