Venkat Subramaniam - Refactoring from Imperative to Functional Style

We are super-happy to announce that Dr. Venkat Subramaniam will be visiting us Thursday 11th January at 18:00. We continue the topic of functional programming in Java, with a closer look at how we can refactor imperative code to a functional style. The talk is a perfect for anyone who wants to learn more about functional programming as a coding style, while at the same time learning how to go forward with refactoring.

Food:
Pizza and drinks will be served at 17:30
We also provide allergy friendly and vegetarian variants

Refactoring from Imperative to Functional Style
Learning syntax is part of our lives and that comes from practice. The challenge with programming in the functional style is to be able to think in a paradigm that is different from the one we are used to. In this live coding presentation, we will take a look at how to promote such thinking by taking some imperative style code and refactoring to functional style. Along the way, we will discuss the thought process to make the journey a pleasant experience and also explore functions baked into the JDK that make this possible.

Speaker: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at [venkats@agiledeveloper.com](mailto:venkats@agiledeveloper.com) or on twitter at @venkat_s.