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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Kotlin

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Kotlin Level up your programming skills by understanding how Kotlin's data structure works

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788994019
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chandra Sekhar Nayak Chandra Sekhar Nayak
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Rivu Chakraborty Rivu Chakraborty
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Data Structures FREE CHAPTER
2. A Walk Through - Data Structures and Algorithms 3. Arrays - First Step to Grouping Data 4. Section 2: Efficient Grouping of Data with Various Data Structures
5. Introducing Linked Lists 6. Understanding Stacks and Queues 7. Maps - Working with Key-Value Pairs 8. Section 3: Algorithms and Efficiency
9. Deep-Dive into Searching Algorithms 10. Understanding Sorting Algorithms 11. Section 4: Modern and Advanced Data Structures
12. Collections and Data Operations in Kotlin 13. Introduction to Functional Programming 14. Other Books You May Enjoy 15. Assessments

Introducing functional programming

Functional programming is a programming paradigm, just like object-oriented programming (OOP) or procedural programming. The definition of functional programming says, functional programming is a programming system that relies on structuring the program as the evaluation of mathematical functions with immutable data, and it avoids state-change.

Just as OOP requires you to model your program like real-life objects (such as trees, birds, and so on), functional programming requires you to distribute your program into small pieces of code, making it modular and non-complex. Just like OOP, functional programming encourages code reusability and abstraction. In many functional programming experts' opinions, functional programming is a more efficient evolution of OOP. So, it's better to consider functional programming not as contradictory to...

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