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Functional Programming in Scala, 2nd Edition

by Michael Pilquist, Rúnar Bjarnason and Paul Chiusano
The cover of Functional Programming in Scala
4.67/5 on Goodreads
ISBN 9781617299582
Published in 2023
488 pages

Description

This international bestseller has been revised with new exercises, annotations, and full coverage of Scala 3.

In Functional Programming in Scala, Second Edition you will learn how to:

  • Recognize and write purely functional code
  • Work with errors without using exceptions
  • Work with state and concurrency
  • Interact with functional structures that define common behaviors
  • Write code that performs I/O without sacrificing functional programming

Functional Programming in Scala has helped over 30,000 developers discover the power of functional programming. You’ll soon see why reviewers have called it “mindblowing”! The book smooths the complexity curve of functional programming, making it simple to understand the basics and intuitive to progress to more advanced topics. Concrete examples and exercises show you FP in the real world and reveal how it can improve your everyday coding practices. This second edition comes packed with the latest standards of FP, as well as full code updates to Scala 3, and its new language features.