You're reading from Soar with Haskell The ultimate beginners' guide to mastering functional programming from the ground up

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805128458

Length 418 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Haskell

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Functional Programming

Author (1):

Tom Schrijvers

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Basic Functional Programming FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Functions

3. Chapter 2: Algebraic Datatypes

4. Chapter 3: Recursion

5. Chapter 4: Higher-Order Functions

6. Part 2: Haskell-Specific Features

7. Chapter 5: First-Class Functions

8. Chapter 6: Type Classes

9. Chapter 7: Lazy Evaluation

10. Chapter 8: Input/Output

11. Part 3: Functional Design Patterns

12. Chapter 9: Monoids and Foldables

13. Chapter 10: Functors, Applicative Functors, and Traversables

14. Chapter 11: Monads

15. Chapter 12: Monad Transformers

16. Part 4: Practical Programming

17. Chapter 13: Domain-Specific Languages

18. Chapter 14: Parser Combinators

19. Chapter 15: Lenses

20. Chapter 16: Property-Based Testing

21. Index

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