Reviews

On Aug 21 Marvin Lee wrote: Intermediate level guide on functional programming
First thing first, what is functional programming? In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm, a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs, that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids state and mutable data. Full Review  >

Rating: 4.0

On Aug 14 Kiatikun Luangkesorn wrote: Focuses on teaching you how to think functionally, and why that is good.
What Ford does in Functional thinking is to present the advantages of functional programming within the context of an object oriented language that can support this, then move to more appropriate languages to show how the advantages can be more clear when the language supports it more directly. You will not learn functional programming from this book, but it does offer a more clear argument for why functional programming can useful and better in some circumstances. Full Review  >

Rating: 4.0

On Aug 7 Phil Johnstone wrote: Functional Thinking
Many of the functional programming books that I have read (or in all honesty started to read but not finished) tend to bog down in the syntax of the language and explain how concepts work but not why you should care. Functional Thinking is refreshing in that it guides imperative-thinking programmers to understand how the patterns that they currently employ to solve problems currently could be solved using functional patterns and most crucially, why you should care. Full Review  >

Rating: 5.0

On Aug 2 Horst Gutmann wrote: Functional Thinking inside the JVM
Functional Thinking tries to introduce functional programming concepts to Java developers but suffers quite a bit from too many repeated examples and introducing some of the concepts far too late into the book. Full Review  >

Rating: 2.0

On Jul 28 Tushar Jain wrote: Functional Thinking
Functional Thinking: Paradigm Over Syntax is supposed to be a book about paradigm shift, about thought process of being functional but ... Full Review  >

Rating: 1.0