Master techniques and concepts of functional programming to deliver
safer, simpler, and more effective Kotlin code.
In Functional Programming in Kotlin you will learn:
Functional programming techniques for real-world applications
Write combinator libraries
Common structures and idioms in functional design
Simplicity and modularity (and fewer bugs!)
Functional Programming in Kotlin is a reworked version of the
bestselling Functional Programming in Scala, with all code samples,
instructions, and exercises translated into the powerful Kotlin
language. In this authoritative guide, you'll take on the challenge of
learning functional programming from first principles. Complex concepts
are demonstrated through exercises that you'll love to test yourself
against. You'll start writing Kotlin code that's easier to read, easier
to reuse, better for concurrency, and less prone to bugs and errors.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and
ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the technology
Improve performance, increase maintainability, and eliminate bugs! How?
By programming the functional way. Kotlin provides strong support for
functional programming, taking a pragmatic approach that integrates well
with OO codebases. By applying the techniques you'll learn in this book,
your code will be safer, less prone to errors, and much easier to read
and reuse.
About the book
Functional Programming in Kotlin teaches you how to design and write
Kotlin applications using typed functional programming. Offering clear
examples, carefully-presented explanations, and extensive exercises, it
moves from basic subjects like types and data structures to advanced
topics such as stream processing. This book is based on the bestseller
Functional Programming in Scala by Rúnar Bjarnason and Paul Chiusano.
What's inside
Functional programming techniques for real-world situations
Common structures and idioms in functional design
Simplicity, modularity, and fewer bugs!
About the reader
For Kotlin developers. No functional programming experience required.
About the author
Marco Vermeulen has two decades of programming experience on the
JVM.
Rúnar Bjarnason and Paul Chiusano are the authors of Functional
Programming in Scala.
Tabel of Contents
PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING
1 What is functional programming?
2 Getting started with functional programming in Kotlin
3 Functional data structures
4 Handling errors without exceptions
5 Strictness and laziness
6 Purely functional state
PART 2 FUNCTIONAL DESIGN AND COMBINATOR LIBRARIES
7 Purely functional parallelism
8 Property-based testing
9 Parser combinators
PART 3 COMMON STRUCTURES IN FUNCTIONAL DESIGN
10 Monoids
11 Monads and functors
12 Applicative and traversable functors
PART 4 EFFECTS AND I/O
13 External effects and I/O
14 Local effects and mutable state
15 Stream processing and incremental I/O
