Workshop: Intro to Functional Programming in JS
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Thanks to basel.js regular Lukasz Gintowt for this one:
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Learn functional techniques to develop and debug much faster. Learn to produce clean and testable code. Became a JavaScript wizard.
PS: Bring your own laptop if you can. This is a hands on workshop.
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Functional programming is hot these days. When I first heard about it I was like - yeah, sure, I've used functions. Well its a bit different from that. One of the main uses of it is for parallel computation.
Heres a few blurbs I dug up:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36504/why-functional-languages
Haskell is a purely functional programming language
http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters
The backstory:
This meetup is even more epic than it sounds, Lukasz mentioned that he could present a js framework that he has developed for realtime distributed calculations. (I think its using webRTC.)
As we talked about it, he realized that there were some core concepts in the framework that were really important for people to understand before hand: namely Functional programming techniques. Et voila - this prequel was born.
Hope to see you there with your thinking caps on.
Cheers, Topher
ps. Check out this Meteor meetup out too later in the week:
Workshop: Intro to Functional Programming in JS