Seventh Func Prog Sweden MeetUp 2022 – Online
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Welcome to the seventh Func Prog Sweden MeetUp 2022 – Online
This MeetUp will be streamed live online on the Func Prog Sweden YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/FuncProgSweden
The program starts at 18.
- Intro by Magnus Sedlacek
- Down the Oregon trail with functional C# by Simon Painter
- Betting our Startup on Clojure by Nick McAvoy
Abstract for Down the Oregon trail with functional C#
In 1971, three students from Minnesota thought they could liven up a history lecture by creating a computer game for the students to play, and after several days of work in HP Time Share BASIC, they came up with what turned out to be a significant milestone in the history of computer games - Oregon Trail.
Oregon Trail is often regarded as one of the first great computer games, as well as being the originator of a franchise that is still running to this day. It was effectively also one of the first instances of both Shareware and a Commercial home release of (depending on the version).
My interest though, isn't just in historical computer games, it's also .NET and Functional Programming. I want to use this as a worked example of one of my passions - Functional Programming in C#! The challenge I've set myself is to redevelop Oregon Trail into C# using the following restrictions:
- Near 100% unit test coverage
- No variables can change state once set
- No statements (for, foreach, if, where, etc.) unless there literally is no way of avoiding them
I'll also be demonstrating a few of the tricks Functional Programming can offer, like Higher-order functions, functional flows with simple Monads and Tail Recursion. There should also be a bit of retro computing fun, while we're at it.
Simon Painter
I code both professionally and - since it's also my hobby - for fun as well. I've been coding professionally since I graduated from university in 2005, and for a hobby since I was old enough to read my Dad's ZX Spectrum BASIC manual. I used to love those Usbourne books which were full of source code, accompanied by flashy 80s-tastic oil paintings of spaceships and monsters, as well as the accompanying source code for a game that, once entered into the machine, was somewhat less visually impressive.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-painter-45a05217/
http://www.thecodepainter.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/madSimonJ
Nick McAvoy is on a quest for simplicity, and he is delighted to have found Clojure along the way. At Crossbeam, he manages a team of engineers known as the Pinto Beams. Elsewhere, other simple loves of his include: naturally leavened bread; Aristotelian cosmology; the bicycle; the piano; marriage and fatherhood. He lives in Philadelphia, USA with a side of South Korea.
https://linkedin.com/in/nick-mcavoy/
https://twitter.com/ohbadiah
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