Functional Principles Online Training (by learning Scala)

[taitruong]

NOTE: before learning this, learn JavaScript first!

Goal 1: you need to learn the functional principles (higher order functions, closures, etc.). It is not the goal of learning Scala!

Goal 2: convert the Scala exercises into JavaScript exercises!

Attend: https://www.coursera.org/learn/progfun1?specialization=scala

It takes 4 weeks. For each week you only need 2 to 4 hours. Tasks:

• finish the course within a week/5 days
• create on your own GitHub account a repo with a name whatever you want (e.g. 'notes', 'it-knowledge-base', ...)
• this repo will be your personal knowledge base
• you may gather all your findings of whatever topic through your years of experience in this knowledge base
• create in this repo two folders: online-courses/scala
• in the main folder 'online-courses' you will add all your notes from different courses
• in the folder 'scala' you will summarize all your learnings in a "week_XYZ.md" file. you will then have 4 markdown files in total!

Some tips for your markdown files:

• use same topics as defined in the course
• keep it as short as possible (e.g. no sentences, only bullets)
  • it is in some way your distilled version of the course with all the essentials
  • add only what is important: like code examples
• very important: write down all the references and links that are mentioned in the course
  • put this at the end under topic '# references'

[taitruong]

Found this resource: https://github.com/fpinscala/fpinscala/wiki

[taitruong]

@RouvenGonzalez, @RagipGashi, an excellent article on Clojures from Rober C. "Uncle Bob" Martin (one of the founders of the agile manifesto): https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/04/06/ALittleClojure.html

[taitruong]

Imperative vs functional programming:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17826380/what-is-difference-between-functional-and-imperative-programming-languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_paradigms
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/concepts/linq/functional-programming-vs-imperative-programming

[RouvenGonzalez]

@RouvenGonzalez, @RagipGashi, an excellent article on Clojures from Rober C. "Uncle Bob" Martin (one of the founders of the agile manifesto): http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/04/06/ALittleClojure.html​​​​​​​

The link is broken on my end

[taitruong]

@RouvenGonzalez, @RagipGashi, an excellent article on Clojures from Rober C. "Uncle Bob" Martin (one of the founders of the agile manifesto): http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/04/06/ALittleClojure.html​​​​​​​

The link is broken on my end

Now it is working. Updated comment above. Thx!

[RagipGashi]

@taitruong. Das funktioniert immer noch nicht!

[taitruong]

Bitte den richtigen Link klicken:
https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/04/06/ALittleClojure.html
Das funktioniert.

[taitruong]

@RagipGashi, @RouvenGonzalez, here are all my notes from the Scala course:
https://github.com/taitruong/scala-hack-session