Overview
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Learn how to leverage the functional programming (FP) features in C# to add FP to your code.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Functional programming patterns
- What you should know
- Working with GitHub
- Overview of the functional programming concepts?
- Write pure functions for better code
- Example of an impure function
- Refactor impure function to pure
- Reduce code side effects
- Don't mutate input arguments
- Use an immutable argument
- Principles of immutable types
- Read-only properties
- Instance method in immutable type
- Use helper methods to create new instance
- Use factory method to create instance
- Work with files
- Calculate the total in pure function
- Randomness in functional programming
- Why expressions are better for functional programs
- Rewrite statements as expressions
- Use Func for first-class functions
- Higher order functions
- Composition patterns
- Compose functions
- Pipelining with extension methods
- Pipelining with generic methods
- Pipelining with IEnumerable
- Understand map and other concepts
- Map with LINQ select
- Filter with LINQ where
- Flatten with SelectMany
- Join with SelectMany
- Fold with Sum and Aggregate
- Next steps
