Functional Reactive Programming in Java with Sodium

Speaker: Stephen Blackheath

Author of the book "Functional Reactive Programming (https://www.manning.com/books/functional-reactive-programming)"

Secrets of the FRP masters - The why and how of Functional Reactive Programming with Java/Sodium

Event-based application logic is a special challenge with today's ever greater demands on the programmer's art. Functional programming (FP) is a powerful general approach that uses composability to tame application complexity, but event handling has remained tricky.

Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) applies functional methods to transform the event handling problem.

Some links of interest:

https://www.manning.com/books/functional-reactive-programming

WiFi, Pizzas and drinks provided, courtesy of Movio

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